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For Lincoln cents dated 2013, there were 3.75 billion minted in Philadelphia and 3.32 billion from Denver.
Are you talking about English pennies or U.S. cents? If you are talking about English pennies and values, £1 = 100p so you need 500 pennies to make £5. If you are talking about U.S. cents and weight, it depends on the coins' dates. Cents minted before 1982 weigh 3.11 gm and cents minted after weigh 2.50 gm. Cents minted during 1982 can weigh either amount. A pound is 453.6 gm so get out your calculator and go from there.
9 BILLION (Excluding "Proof" coins) 4.6 are from the Philadelphia Mint. 4.4 are from the Denver Mint.
65 pounds of pennies would contain 11,804 cents minted after 1983 or 9,489 cents minted before 1981.
The purpose of stopping the production of pennies outweighs the reasons to keep the pennies. The pennies cost 2.4 cents just to be minted. The usage of pennies wastes actual time. The pennies cause safety hazards to small children and are not even accepted by all machines, vendors, and shops.