Coin production costs vary thanks to different raw metals used, complexity of their designs, labor needed and more.

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 cost of producing a single penny has already skyrocketed to about 4 cents, while consumers have mostly shifted to digital payments and cards.