In box 5, the one on the right is a Philippine coin.
As far as I can see, there are two silver coins, a Dutch 10 Cent and a German 5 Mark. The German 5 Mark is probably also the only one that has some significant value.
They are 20th century pre-euro coins, fractions of currencies that no longer exist. (with exceptions, Numista members may add details.)
Inflation or adoption of new currency, in many countries in the last century, has rendered tons and tons of these types of coins useless and worthless, except, collectors like us like them.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
Another way to answer the question is that these are likely pocket change from an American's trip to Europe about 40 years ago when the change from France could not be used in Germany and so on, so it got dumped in the bottom of the suitcase and brought home in a pile that looks like this (the odd single coins from Bulgaria, Iceland and Philippines probably having some other origin).
I myself traveled the continent as a young man , based from Brussels in the early 1980s.
I got as far as Würtemburg, Zürich, and Strasbourg, good times. I did bring back some coins (but all long gone sadly).
my favorite piece I brought back I found in a sofa chair in a hotel room waiting for a plane to NY in Brussels. one of these.
I was broke, but for my ticket home. the belgian bahnhof geldwsels did not take foreign coin! and so i did search for change for one more meal in my two penny traveler's room.
I gave it away the very day I got home. I wish I could find that guy again.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
Verweis : "Mr. Midnight"I wish I could find that guy again.
You talking about the coin or the guy you gave it to?
If it's the coin, you can pick one up on ebay for about $10 shipped for an '81 or about $5 shipped for a '79. It's not technically worth that, but it might be to you for the sentimentality of the thing.
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