On Oct. 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Sonoran Room of the MountainView Clubhouse, the SaddleBrooke Coin Club hosted a talk on the silver Spanish milled dollar. This time-honored coin and its fractional parts (one-half, one, two, and four reales) were the principal coins of the American colonists, and were the forerunners of our own…
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Clubs & Classes, June 2022
Coin Club Hosts Annual Show
Terry Caldwell and Ken Marich The SaddleBrooke Coin Club (SBCC) held its annual Coin Show at the MountainView clubhouse on April 16 in conjunction with Grandkids Day. A special effort was made to introduce children to learning about coins and collecting. Over three dozen kids filtered among the exhibit tables, and each child received some…
Clubs & Classes, February 2021
Many Changes for the Lincoln Penny Over the Last 110 Years
Ken Marich Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president and was in office from 1861 to 1865. In the early 1900s, Victor D. Brenner, the U.S. Mint engraver, designed the Lincoln penny to honor the 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth. Brenner engraved his initials on the reverse of the 1909 penny. A total of about 99 million…
Clubs & Classes, October 2018
Have you ever heard of a wooden nickle?
Ken Marich During your life has anyone ever told you “not to take a wooden nickel”? This American adage is considered to be a light-hearted reminder to be cautious in one’s financial dealings. Well, wooden nickels exist and are novelty or commemorative “coins” sometimes referred to as tokens. They date back to the late 1800s…
Clubs & Classes, September 2017
The cost of minting coins and currency
Ken Marich Have you ever thought about how much our U.S. coins and currency cost to produce? For our government, the monopoly on the creation of coinage and banknotes is supposed to be a profitable endeavor. Let’s first evaluate our currency (paper money). Actually, paper money is a misnomer. U.S. currency is made of a…
Clubs & Classes, February 2017
Jefferson nickels aided the WWII effort
Ken Marich This story starts in 1942 when WWII was underway. America’s back was against the wall as we faced Nazis in Europe and a militarist Japan in Asia. To fight the war required all of our resources and all our skill. Several of these important resources included nickel and copper. Our country needed nickel…
Clubs & Classes, September 2016
Do you remember the Indian Head penny?
Clubs & Classes, January 2016
Coin collecting – a historical perspective (part 1)
Ken Marich Coin collecting is a hobby that is fun, educational and rewarding. It can be enjoyed by both young and old and can be started with as little as pocket change. You can collect modern and/or ancient coins, civil war tokens, hard times tokens, commemorative coins, U.S. coins or foreign coins or all of…
Clubs & Classes, April 2015
Coin Club is celebrating National Coin Week
Ken Marich The SaddleBrooke Coin Club (SBCC) will be sponsoring a half day coin show on April 18, 2015, in the Sonoran Room in the MountainView Clubhouse. The show will be open to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The Coin Show will feature: Educational coin exhibits, free numismatic literature, 2015 U.S. Redbooks…
Clubs & Classes, February 2015
Did the U.S. ever mint a three cent coin?
Ken Marich The answer is yes. In fact, the mint issued two different three cent coins: the three cent silver (1851 to 1873) and the three cent nickel (1865 to 1889). Following the 1848 gold rush at Sutter’s Mill, the Forty-Niners mined vast amounts of gold that had an impact on U.S. coinage. The massive…