BELTON, Texas (KWTX) - The one cent penny will no longer be made but that doesn’t mean the spare change is obsolete and it won’t become rare either.

Even after being produced for 230 years, Troy Emilson, the owner of Emilson’s Coin Shop located at 201 E. Central Ave., says the news didn’t surprise him.

“They’ve been talking about it for years now so I knew at one time it was going to come to an end,” he says.

That time is now because the coin costs four times its worth to make.

“They stopped putting copper in pennies in ‘81 so from ‘82 on it’s just a small sheath of copper and zinc is what is primarily in those coins,” he explains.

Emilson says he has gotten several questions from customers about what this means.

“I’ve had people calling me on the phone and I’ve had people coming in

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