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They're not actual bitcoins. The Bitcoin is a wallet embedded inside of a physical coin. You could take a picture of a USB key and call it a Bitcoin using that logic.

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I think I know what bitcoins are. So what is a better image to use then?

The Casascius coin is just fine to communicate the idea. Either that or just the bitcoin logo.

People are selling btc this way on ebay

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