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Everything is making less cents. The US Mint has placed its final order of penny blanks and will stop producing the coin when those run out by early next year — marking the beginning of the end for one of the oldest continually printed money pieces in America,

The American penny has been in circulation since 1792. It will be discontinued because it is too expensive to make.

The federal government made its final order of penny blanks this month — the first step to end the production of the 1-cent coin, a spokesperson for the Treasury Department confirmed to USA TODAY.

The American penny will begin its slow fade into non-existence as the government plans stop making the U.S. currency next year.

The U.S. Mint will make pennies as long as the blanks exist, but once they run out, there will be no more pennies produced, CNN reported. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, said that no new pennies will be added to circulation by early next year.

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