Foreign Coin Identification Guide Recommendations.

I will do that as the last resort, I need to figure these out myself so I can learn more about them.

https://en.numista.com/
John1

Thanks for the Info... I went to a used book site I use and picked up the Krause books, none of these coins are newer than 2008 and I am not interested in value right now, so the used books will work just fine for me. Besides I got both books for less than a 1922-D wheat in VG condition. I will use John1's suggestion for online IDing but I figured what the heck, it wouldn't hurt to have the books on hand....

Numista is my personal favorite go-to, provided you can figure out which country the coin is from. NGC is nice in that it has price info, bit IMO the interface is too cumbersome to use for mass-identification.

Your typical bucket o' coins won't have more than 50-75 different countries in it, the vast majority of which should be inscribed in Latin alphabet - type exactly what you see on the coin and Google will lead you right. You'll soon get the hang of identifying almost everything at least by country.

Another helpful tool is Google - simply type in some text which you see on the coin, and it should tell you where it's from. Even if the script isn't using the Latin alphabet, if you "get close", Google should still be of help - you wouldn't be the first person to read the denomination on a Greek coin as "APAXMAI", for example, even if the actual Greek lettering is "drachmai".

Doesn't help with East Asian coins, of course, though with those, you've really only got a few options to search (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan). Arabic-speaking countries usually have the name in either English or French as well as Arabic, again with just a few exceptions I can think of (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran)

If you go for the physical book Krause catalogue (either buying a copy or borrowing from a local library), you should find a handy "instant identifier" reference table in the front pages which shows pictures of many symbols that appear on non-English-language coins, so you can easily match the pictures with the symbols you see on your coins.