Corsair wrote:It is 146, Ed. 454 grams per pound/3.11 grams per penny = 145.98 pennies per pound.
I am just going by Coinflation's melt calculator: http://www.coinflation.com/coins/baseme ... lator.html
and my own personal experience of weighing them on a scale. Like Hoard said, it depends on how much wear is on the pennies.
EDIT: Oh, wait a minute. I am talking about the amout of copper in the penny. You guys are talking about the amount of wieght per penny per pound. Got it. By my reckoning, it takes $1.55 to equal a pound of copper.