Need a little "big" help here - no idea from which country

trying to identify another few ones @Stevearino

From what I have learned from you guys, I guess the first one is from Japan; however, even though I found a similar one at numista:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces5670.html

the character at 2 o'clock on the obverse (dragon side) doesn't seem to be the same and i am unable to identify the year:

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and these two coins have a hole in the center, characters that I do not recognize and are shiny on one side and very dark on the other-

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This is a really cool thread. People coming up with ideas which are either right on or shot down. The coins with the square holes are Chinese. The characters on the pictures at far left and far right are Mongloian script. The center ones are traditional Chinese characters. All images need to be rotated 90 degrees to the right. Not sure on the Mongol coins, they might need to rotate the other way. I can read the Kanji script on the Japanese coins in the OP, however I can not read the ones above. numista.com or zeno.ru are good places to help identify such coins.

 

Thanks @coin_nut, I couldn't even tell where is up or down on the last to ones

For the 1 Sen from Japan, I did search it at numista, and I think the characters are not exactly the same, but I can't tell for sure

 

The 1 Sen coin dates from 1876 otherwise year 9 of the Meiji period.

 

https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/liberia-cent-x-pn1-1890-cuid-1208178-duid-1453165

For the Liberian coin which I love btw

 

Awesome, thank you so much

 

If you or any member in the US is interested, please send me a PM.

I have identified 45 coins and still have to identify about 40 more. Once I have finished this, I will try to kind of "grade" them, something like this is worn, or fine, and post them on the advertising section. From what I have read about CT Rules, I think this is allowed. If it is not , I hope somebody will tell me...

 

It gets tricky when you post a coin here asking for help and then later list the coin for sale. The moderators generally classify the first post as advertising for the coin. This of course makes it tricky to learn about coins you want to sell. I don't have a good answer on how to solve this conundrum.

 

Thank you so much for your clarification.

In my OP I think I said that these coins were not mine; personally I do not have any interest in selling them.
I can just leave them at the Economy Shop, where most probably no one is interested in getting them, and they will end in the metal recycling bin or thrown away at the end of the season. If this thread goes against the rules, I hope the moderator deletes it.

 

As long as you don't sell them here, or online and share the link on CT, you're not breaking the rules.

 

Now I see it at numista, it is to be read from right to left -

 

'Modern' (ie 1870 and on) Japanese coins make it tough by switching right to left as in the earlier pieces, to left to right later, partway through the Showa era. The nen character ( 年 ) is the year indicator and is after the Era name and the numerical year. Locate that and you know which way you are reading.

 

年 I say as "Nian", using Mandarin Chinese rather than Japanese...end up with the same meaning though. Year. Knowing some of these other lingos does help a lot in properly identifying coins. I know Stork has some excellent Japanese coins.