Identify that damage #11

For some reason, I've found that people love to abuse large cents.

This one had its edges messed with for some reason, and has a cute little "$" sign stamped on the back.

Honestly, why do people love to mess with large cents so much?

 

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Looks like a bezel coin - and has verdigras?
Poor coin!!

 

They are simpler for the easily amused to mess with.

 

Perhaps they started to make a ring.

 

Playboy didn't come out until 100 years later.

 

Kid with new hammer.

 

Large cents are of little monetary value and are large. They thus make a good subject for "art" work. Actually, I have seen a lot of love tokens (which were popular circa civil war and subsequent) but none made from large cents.