Here's some basic ID info to help your friend sort them out:
- "Osterreich" = Austria.
- "Belgie" or "Belgique" = Belgium.
- The ones with the hammer-and-sickle logo are old USSR coins.
- The two aluminium pieces with holes in them are from Greece; other coins with this same writing are also Greek.
- The "guy with the glasses" (eg. top left corner) is the king of Thailand; you'll find him on all the Thai coins.
-The ones with "Asian" or "Chinese" characters on them are all from either Japan or South Korea. Telling them apart can be tricky; I've found the easiest rule-of-thumb is that Korean script includes characters that contain some circular or oval shapes; Chinese/Japanese script is all lines, boxes and angles. Example: the coins with the large "100" on them: 4 down 2 across is Japanese, while 2 down 7 across is Korean.
Other interesting pieces to note:
- the scallop-shaped one at 5 down 8 across is from Israel.
- 3 down 6 across is from Egypt, I think.
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All look to be modern base metal coinage.
I see two silvers: top right corner, looks like an old Canadian quarter. And the small dark one at 6 down 5 across is a 1/10th guilder from the Netherlands East Indies (now known as Indonesia).
The only one I can't ID from the pics is 4 down 1 across, the dark brassy one. Might be Peru?
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