CS2 coins and display items: the 5 and 10 Year Veteran Coins, the Operation and Major Coins, and the no-removal rule

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CS2 coins and display items

Counter-Strike 2 hands out a few collectible display items that sit on your profile. They are not skins, they are not tradeable, and once they are on your account they stay there. Here is what each one is and how you get it.

5 and 10 Year Veteran Coins

The 5 and 10 Year Counter-Strike 2 Veteran Coins are granted automatically to accounts that logged into and played Counter-Strike 2 in the five or ten years before the coin eligibility date and are in good VAC standing. Good standing means no VAC, Overwatch, or Game ban. An account banned in any game on Steam, or trade banned, does not qualify.

Eligibility is tied to a date, not to how long you have owned the game. To check yours, log into Steam on the web, open your Profile, select Games, then Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, then My Game Stats, then Personal Game Data. On the Account Information tab, look for "First Counter-Strike franchise game". Five and ten years from that date is when the coins become yours.

Two details trip people up. The coin is not granted until you launch Counter-Strike 2, so qualifying does not put it in your inventory by itself. And if you refunded or removed a Counter-Strike license from your account, the original registration date is no longer recognized; the date on the Account Information tab is the one that counts.

Loyalty Badges

Loyalty Badges went out when CS:GO went free to play on December 6, 2018. To be eligible, your Steam account had to be in good VAC standing, meaning no bans in CS2, and had to have owned and launched CS:GO in the five years before that date. They cannot be granted manually, and it is no longer possible to receive one.

Operation and Major Tournament Coins

Operation and Major Tournament Coins are upgradeable display items given to players who complete missions during their event. The more missions you finish, the more the display item can be upgraded. Once the event ends, the item can no longer be upgraded.

Can you remove or change them?

No. Service Medals, coins of any kind, badges, pins, and other display items cannot be modified or removed from an account once they have been added.

Sources
Steam Support: CS2 - Service Medals, Coins, and Display items