The federal government will stop producing pennies next year, ending a more than 200-year run for the nation’s lowest coin denomination. The penny’s mark on Albuquerque is small but not insignificant — retailers say they’ll probably just have to change prices to multiples of five.

“I’m glad that pennies are going away. I wish all coin change would go away,” said Mike Phillips, owner of Keller’s Farm Stores, a pair of local Albuquerque markets.

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