The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.
Note: The word defacement in Vexillology has none of the bad connotations its other meanings have.
Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
One-and-twenty worn and defaced shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and defaced too, but seldom so much so.