How are we ranking legality? Is it severity of punishment, or financial cost of the crime?
Yes.
Write a note on it and use that note to rob a bank. That’ll give you more time than killing someone.
Write the robbery note on the sock, then go nuts after showing it to the teller?
Thinking outside the box? That’s a beating
One dollar bill? Believe or not, straight to a beating.
use a stack of the pennies to replace a big fuse in a important location.
Use a stack of pennies to derail a train full of chemicals.
100 pennies is easily 100 federal bribes!
Beat someone to death with it while storming your country’s top government building trying to overthrow said government.
Just add some treason/insurrection on top.
We already had that in the US. Turns out, not as illegal as you might think.