From wikipedia article:
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Dent gets his trademark coin from his abusive father, who would employ the coin in a perverse nightly "game" that would always end with Harvey being beaten. This would instill in Harvey his lifelong struggle with free will and his eventual inability to make choices on his own.
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Not sure how they would have worked that into the movie, but that would have made for a pretty cool back-story. Well ... "cool" is probably a poor choice of words ... how about "intriguing".