Mighty dainty coins those. On the flip side, you can find sturdy stitched leather coin purses with a sturdy zipper along one thin side, and a handle/loop at the other end that doesn't hold coins. These might bear a strong resemblance to a "slapper," a flatter shaped "blackjack," which were fairly standard police carry up until the 1940s or so. The "original" ones were filled with a small/medium handful of smaller lead shot. They were quite discreetly carried on one's belt or in one's pocket, and when held in the hand, only extended ~3-5" and concentrated a fair bit of weight in to a very small area. You'd see both cops and bad guys knock each other out with them in the movies /comics of the time, but you'd really have to hold back your swing, as they could easily be lethal if you really let 'em have it.
Police were instructed to only use them on the large muscle groups of the limbs, and even a medium strength "slap" would be enough to put that limb out of commission for a while. I've heard of bones easily broken, including the collar bone, if you put enough oomf in in to it.
It's a shame even the modern "coin purse" versions are *very* illegal in iirc every state, as they seem quite comfy to carry and conceal. Plus, you'll never regret not having that three cents to avoid getting $0.97 back to annoyingly jingle when you walked.
Oddly enough, investigating self-defense laws, specifically my home state of California, knives, as long as they are visibly carried are completely legal to carry as well as to defend oneself, up to lethally here. Any impact weapon, like a baseball bat, you better have *strong* alibis to have one, like a mitt and be on a route directly to/from an actual baseball game and at least a teammate or two to corroborate your story, or you could be in big trouble. Weird state, this.
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