Precautions and tips for Qualitative Inorganic Analysis of Coins
1) The coins must be dissolved (at least partially). There is a good amount of metals that won't dissolve in common  acids (hydrochloric acids), some will require nitric acid, some will require aqua regia and some will require even worse, though that's unlikely. So, most likely you will have to deal with concentrated nitric acid, that produce nitric oxide (fox's tail) when react with metals. Given that you must have fume hood. In case something undissolved remains, you can try aqua regia, and if even that fail, you have something rare, like nioubium, with no common method of wet analisys. 

2) Most metals used in coins have toxic salts. So, be cautios, and avoid skin contact. Latex gloves and protective goggles are not vital, but certainly recommended unless you believe you can be accurate enough. Usual safety requirements for work with conc. acids applies as well.

3) In case of non-destructive analisys, X-ray fluorescent spectrometry may be employed. It will give accurate analysis in almost any realistic case, but requires quite costly equipment. It is not extremely costly per analysis, though.