The penny’s days are numbered, and some retailers are already running short of the one-cent coins.

The Treasury Department officially marked the beginning of the end of penny production in May when it placed its last order of blanks – the flat metal discs to make pennies. That came after President Donald Trump told the department in February to stop making the coins , which cost more than 3 cents to produce (they cost 3.69 cents to make, according to the U.S. Mint ).

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