With the penny no longer being produced, some stores across the U.S. are running short of the coins. Lawmakers need to pass a legal remedy to allow for rounding to the nearest nickel, retailers say.

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 ).

The U.S. Mint reportedly made its last pennies in August, the American Bankers Association said on Oct. 17. Alr

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