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Coin Identification Worksheets

Check out these coin identification worksheets to help your young students learn about U.S. currency.

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Coin identification is one of the foundations of money education. Students need to be aware of the different coins, including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and unique ones like dollar coins. These worksheets will build the base for your younger students, preparing them for more advanced money concepts down the road. Let’s see the best coin identification worksheets around!

Coin Identification and Value Worksheets

  • Kids’ Money U.S. Coin Values Worksheet: This worksheet is ideal for multiple grade levels. It gives students an understanding of the various coins found in the United States and has them express different ways to describe their value. (K-5th Grade)
  • Coins and Their Values: This worksheet requires matching coins to their values. They learn the look of coins and their worth. (Kindergarten)
  • Identifying Coins and Their Values: This sheet requires students to identify coins, know their values, and count totals. It is good practice for young learners. (Kindergarten)
  • Coins and Values Identification: This worksheet requires students to match coins and values, brushing them up on their money awareness skills. (K-2nd Grade)
  • Identifying Coins and Their Values: In this worksheet, students must identify coins, words, and values to match the correct coin. (K-3rd Grade)
  • Know Your Coins: Students draw a line between coins and their values in this worksheet, assessing their knowledge of various denominations. (1st Grade)
  • Money Practice: Kids need to identify coins and their worth in this worksheet, finding totals with pennies, nickels, and dimes. (1st Grade)
  • Counting Money: This worksheet has kids identify and count pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. (2nd Grade)
  • Money Match to $2: This worksheet lets kids identify and total coins and bills, choosing between a multiple-choice selection of answers. (2nd Grade)
  • Counting Coins and $1 Bills: This worksheet adds a level of complexity, with dollar bills included. Kids have to identify coins and total the amounts. (3rd Grade)

Coin Identification and Recognition Worksheets

  • Naming and Counting Coins: This worksheet provides students with plenty of practice identifying coins. They compare amounts, understand values, and see coins in images and pictures. (K-2ndGrade)
  • Coin ID: Students need to locate and identify the nickels, dimes, or pennies in these worksheets. The focus is on U.S. money of different denominations. (K-3rd Grade)
  • Money Recognition: This worksheet has students color, cut, and glue the appropriate coin on its spot. It is suitable for whole-class or independent work. (K-2nd Grade)
  • Identifying Coins: This worksheet provides students with a place to color and distinguish between different denominations.  (Kindergarten)
  • Coin Identification and Counting: This worksheet requires students to identify coins and count the number of each. (Kindergarten)
  • Coins: This worksheet shows students pictures of various coins, and they spell out the names of each. (K-2nd Grade)
  • Label Each Coin By Name and Value: This worksheet requires students to identify various coins, write their names, and list their values. (1st-3rd Grade)
  • Identifying Coins: Your students will enjoy underlining quarters, circling the dimes, putting an X on the nickels, and drawing squares around the pennies in this worksheet. (K-3rd Grade)
  • Identifying Coins Check-In: Teachers can use this worksheet to assess student understanding of different coins and values. (2nd Grade)
  • Compare And Contrast Money: You can have your students think critically and respond in writing on this worksheet, with kids describing the similarities and differences of various coins and bills. (2ndGrade)

Navigate to our teacher’s guide to money math for more resources!

About the Author

Peter Brown

Peter Brown is a National Board Certified teacher with over two decades of experience in the classroom. He loves working with students of all ages in many subjects, but particularly in practical areas like money education, to help kids achieve their goals. When he is not teaching or writing about financial literacy, you can find him surfing, hiking, skiing, or traveling to new places.

Last updated on: October 26, 2022