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As a general point: Crypto assets are never „on“ or „in“ any wallet. They are always just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s on the blockchain. You access your specific 1’s and 0’s via a „passphrase“, which we call your seed phrase or (essentially) private keys. A wallet’s sole function is to store that „passphrase“ in a way that lets you use it to interact with your assets, and a hardware wallet is simply an especially secure way of doing so, as it minimizes the number of opportunities for exploitation, and for you, the fallible human, to screw up. So, to be clear, a wallet is a means of interfacing, not a „vault“ for your assets. If your assets are your emails in Gmail, and your seed phrase/keys are your email password, then the wallet is analogous to your web browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc).

Incidentally, this is also why your physical Ledger is not *that* important to secure. To use it, you have to enter a PIN and the device locks out if you enter it wrong too many times. If someone steals your Ledger, the chances are very low they can guess you PIN and access your assets. On the other hand, if they get access to your seed they can access all your assets. So, frankly, the thing you should be storing in a safety deposit box (or whatever) is your seed phrase, not your Ledger. The whole point of a hardware wallet is that you can carry it around without risk of your seed getting into the wrong hands even if you lose it, and you’re losing all the convenience of having a hardware wallet if you can’t physically access it–as you’re currently experiencing.

Anyway, to your question. First, if you think you’ll eventually retrieve your Ledger and only plan to hodl in the meantime, you could simply send any new assets to your existing Ledger-managed addresses. You don’t need access to your Ledger to receive assets, provided you already have an address associated with the coin in question (like if you already have some VET from before). However, if this is your first VET then that won’t work.

Second, if we’re talking about a relatively small $$ value, you could just manage your VET via VeWorld or Sync without involving a Ledger. Provided you practice good security hygiene this isn’t an undue risk, and weighed against the cost of buying another Ledger it might make the most cost/benefit sense. You could always transfer to a Ledger-managed address later when you retrieve your device.

Third, if you’re determined to use a Ledger, you basically have two choices. You can either initialize the second (new) device with the same seed, resulting in two identical copies and allowing you access to all the other assets you’re managing via your original Ledger; or you can initialize the second device with a different seed. In general you don’t want too many copies of your Ledger since in effect all you’re doing is multiplying the chances of something, somewhere getting compromised, but given that we’re only talking about 2 and the other one is in a safety deposit box, that’s likely not a major concern in this case. So if you want to spend the money then yes, I would probably just initialize the new device with your existing seed.

As for whether LL cares, the answer is no. LL (like VeWorld or any other) is just interface software allowing you to access your assets on the blockchain by means of your „passphrase“. It’s like asking if Chrome cares that you have your Gmail password written down in two places. It doesn’t.