It looks like this has stirred up quite a hornets nest I guess the thing is... All travel bug dog tags are the same, it is what's attached to it that makes it unique, so people don't mind as much a copy of the tag, whereas coins are all pretty much unique as you don't often come across the same sort more than a couple of times. If your coins are so valuble to you then keep them in your collection, take them to events to be discovered that way you will always know it's safe, (That's what we intend to do), if you want to keep with the spirit of geocaching and allow coins to travel from cache to cache then you have to take a chance that some dishonest person may pocket it, S**t happens! we have released several "real" coins and hope they don't go missing but it's they chance you take to share the joy of coins