Ken Marich The Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) is proud to sponsor a free two-hour presentation by Terry Caldwell on the Navajo Code Talkers. The lecture will be on Wednesday, Nov. 13, starting at 4 p.m. in the DesertView Theater (mark your calendar!). Terry is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and a SaddleBrooke…
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Clubs & Classes, October 2024
Free Lecture on the Navajo Code Talkers
Ken Marich The Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) is proud to sponsor a free two-hour presentation by Terry Caldwell on the Navajo Code Talkers. The lecture will be on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. in the DesertView Theater. (Mark your calendar!) Terry is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and a SaddleBrooke resident.…
Clubs & Classes, October 2022
SB Coin Club News
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…
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?
Ken Marich The Indian Penny is an important change to our American coinage as it signaled the end of the large cent era. By 1857, the cost of making copper cents rose to a level that a more cost-effective coin had to be made. Large cents (1793-1857) were made of copper; they were the size…
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…