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Under 18 U.S.C. § 333, U.S. law prohibits mutilating, cutting, defacing, disfiguring, or perforating banknotes (Federal Reserve notes, etc.) with intent to render them unfit to be reissued.
Separately, 18 U.S.C. § 331 addresses defacement or alteration of coins (rather than paper notes). That law criminalizes fraudulent alteration, mutilation, or falsification of coins.
It sounds like a legal grey area. Still good advice to be careful and make sure you’re not breaking the law.