He Gave Me A Bag Of World Coins

Yes, it looks like LOTS of pocket change from EUropean vacations.
Many of those '50s-60s issues (Italian aluminum and stainless and the French Mariannes) are unsellable unless one of the scarcer dates in high grade ... Likewise most of the small denomination Scandinavian (though I have moved AU examples of tougher dates in '50s from Norway and Denmark on ebay)

I saw a 1950s British Honduras that looked to be in high grade, which is definitely sellable, maybe the NZ half penny, and almost everything George VI from Hong Kong you will find some kind of market on ebay. I have sold even low grades in year sets or date runs.

As always ... do your research.

I was also pretty surprised to see the silver. And this was his "give to the neighbor" pile! I wonder what the coins for his grandson were.
I'd like to find out if the Swiss 5 francs and the Norse Commemmoratives are real. I haven't weighed them yet, but they do have the heft and look of silver.
I'm not really planning to sell any of these, so while the financial piece is always really interesting, but not critical at the moment. In fact, I feel inspired to keep them and maybe use them as the start to a few new 20th century type sets.
The paper money may be a different story though. It's never been that interesting to me.

Norse medal is nice!

Decent amount of silver in there too!

I have one coin from the lot that I haven't yet identified. I'm hoping that someone here can help me with it.




And more importantly, I'd like to get your help with how to show my gratitude to the gentleman that gave me these coins. I delivered a handwritten thank-you note yesterday and he told me that the coins were in a box for years, having previously belonged to his in-laws from their travels in Europe. Neither he nor his wife are coin collectors and they just wanted to get them out of their house, since they just downsized to a single story house that fits their needs as they age (previously, they lived down the street from me, now across town). The coins he kept for his grandson were all US coins. I don't think he had a sentimental attachment to these coins, but I also believe that he may not have known what he had. Or if he did have some idea, he did not know what to do with them.
Since he was giving them to the first person to respond, I don't think he expects anything in return, but like others here have pointed out, it just doesn't feel right not to say something or do something for him. I wasn't trying to purchase a lot of coins, but there is obviously some value here I didn't expect in a free lot.
I feel like "community" carries as much weight as "coin" on this forum and so my question is, what is the right thing to do here? I feel a little stuck as I try to figure this one out. Do I try to pay him something? If so, how much? Offer them back? Give him a gift card for dinner out? Am I overthinking it?

Lunch Money The coin you posted is a Japanese 50 Yen a copper nickel coin dated year 14 (2002).