With proper dwell control, not much heat sink required. That could be done with a chip the size as the 8 pin one.
Copper pennies, not since before 1982 :(. Copper is heavy, real race cars use aluminum :).
I was going to use a dime, but did not want it to get political, seems most like Lincoln.
Nothing wrong with HEI, similar to my bunch of parts, but already packaged. Much better than OEM box or the sick photos of MSD guts.