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A US 1 cent piece prior to 1982 was made of copper and had a mass of about 3.1g. This is about 0.049 moles of copper, or around 2.9 x 1022 atoms.

More recent pennies are mostly zinc (97.5%) and have a mass of about 2.5g. This works out to around 2.2 x 1022 zinc atoms and 5.9 x 1020 copper atoms, so overall around 2.3 x 1022 atoms.

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