It's funny how media outlets often use pictures of gold coins with the Bitcoin logo on it to illustrate Bitcoin. If it doesn't have a physical representation they make one ;-)
How anyone could consider this money transmission is beyond me. It's sickening hyper-regulation. And even more sickening is that the FinCEN rep stood in front of congress not even a month ago and assured congress how careful FinCEN was to not stifle innovation with overregulation. Admittedly, casascius coins aren't high technology (although they're very attractive), but the fact that FinCEN was so quick to crack down here does not inspire confidence at all.