camplejo

Okay...you got me. I've not posted here yet and done some limited reading of the boards. My name is Chris and my caching name is camplejo which is what I signed up with on geocaching.com before I knew enough to pick a more fun name. In any case, been caching since Sept 2007. Do not have any coins of my own. Have moved several from cache to cache. Not really clear on how people acquire coins unless they are just buying them. Thanks for this post as an opportunity for a noob in coins to show up. So my question is, what is the difference between acquiring/collecting coins and finding them in caches and moving them along to another cache?