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The US mint lists the mass of a clean, current (2012) penny as 2.5 grams.

I'll spare you all the unit conversions and just blurt out the answer.

(Just because I have to do all that work, why should you suffer ? !)

At 2.5 grams per penny, you'd need 182 of them to weigh one pound.

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