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I assume he brought them back from his service in Europe in WW2
Sometimes the coins tell of family stories that were not so obvious. My wife's father also served in NW Europe in 1944-45. The coins he passed down were Belgian, Netherlands and Germany with dates up to 1944.
Except for some Netherlands coins from 1948. It turned out he had fallen in love with a young Dutch woman, and returned to the Netherlands in 1948, but returned home still single (to later marry my wife's mother).