Identifying coins comes first
Before a child can count money they have to know which coin is which, and that is what the default sheet here does: twelve coins, one per cell, with a blank for the name and a blank for the value. A word bank — penny · nickel · dime · quarter — prints under the directions so the exercise tests recognition, not spelling.
Actual size matters more than you would think
These coins print at their real diameters: a quarter is 24.26 mm across, a nickel 21.21, a penny 19.05, a dime 17.91. A kindergartner can lay a real coin from a jar on top of the printed one and check the match, which is not something a worksheet with four identical circles can offer. It also sets up the lesson that trips up nearly every child: the dime is the smallest coin on the page and worth more than the penny and the nickel.
Counting, when they are ready
Switch the worksheet type to Count the coins and set the coins to Pennies & nickels · to 25¢ for the K counting sheet — short piles, values printed on the coin faces as scaffolding, one answer box per row. At that level the value is on the coin on purpose; the printed digit fades away from the third range on, once recognition is solid.
What standards say about kindergarten money
Common Core has exactly one money standard and it lands in 2nd grade, so coin identification lives in state standards instead — Texas TEKS K.4 (identify US coins by name), Virginia SOL K.7, and similar strands in most states. These sheets target that: name and value, no arithmetic required.
See also: all counting money worksheets · 1st grade money worksheets.