The penny has died. At the age of 232, the iconic coin’s final batch was minted in Philadelphia on Wednesday. But while the copper-plated-zinc currency is dead, it is not yet gone: the estimated 250 billion pennies already in circulation will persist as legal tender, leaving customers and businesses to navigate a newly limited economy of cents.

The United States pressed its final pennies Wednesday as it marked an end to the production of the one-cent coin after more than 230 years.