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REALM OF COINS ASBURY PARK SUNDAY PRESS, Mar. 14, 1971 CIS The Navy Helped Launch His Hobby By ED REITER you're hitting all those foreign ports." Actually, the 32-ycar-old chief petty officer has been interested in coins "on and off since he was 9 years old back in his hometown of Portland, Maine. He didn't take up the hobby in earnest, however, until about six years ago. "I WAS stationed in England from 1961 to 1964," he recalls, "and during that time I used to throw all the English coins I got into a three-pound coffee can. "I brought the can with me when I came back to the Slates, and when I sorted out the coins I found I had a complete set of brass threepences, a set of sixpences complete from 1930, and an almost complete set of Large English cents.

"I went out and got some holders and started filling the holes, then I went out and started getting U.S. coin books and filling them up. And I've been serious about coins ever since," His duties took him to Guam in 1967, and while there he became more serious than ever about coins and even "went over the hill" by buy- Press Staff Writer LAKEIIURST Charles E. (Chuck) Fificld Joined the Navy to see the world and found himself traversing the world of coins as well. "Being in the Navy has given me the opportunity to obtain coins from all over the world," says Mr.

Fifleld, a 15-year Navy man now serving as an instructor at the Na-v al Air here. "You might say it's a fringe benefit of being in the service. This is really the life for any collector of foreign material especially the Navy, where fill i 'I i 1 THE CHESSBOARD Benoni Gaining Followers "I'D SAY the U.S. is at the bottom," he declares. "Foreign countries use tlwir coinage for commemorative purposes, whereas we don't any longer.

Their coins have special designs. "A 1909-S VDB Lincoln cent is no different from a cent, except that it's scarcer." As he sees It, collecting foreign coins also provides greater insight into world history and geography, politics, religion, and languages. "Take your pick," he says. "It's all there. I've learned enough about different alphabets to be able to decipher, at least partially, Arabic, Japanese, Ethiopian, and Indian." Then, too, foreign coins tend to be cheaper.

"It's easier to explain to your wife when you spend $10," he observes, "if you get 100 coins instead of just one." He frequently buys foreign coins by mail bid, usually in lots of 250 or more from varied countries. This, presumably, makes it all seem more worthwhile to his wife, Nancy. Charles 9, and Doreen, 6, round out the family. NEEDLESS to say, Mr. Fi-field, like all Navy men, spends only a small portion of his time seeing the world and exploring the world of coins.

He's busy most of the time being a Navy weatherman. Does he consider coin prices easier to forecast than the weather? "Only a fool would bet on either," he remarks. THE NATTC Lakehurst ing them. "There was a coin club on the Island," he relates, "and I got very involved in it. We were in the middle of nowhere, and it was the only club there, so there wasn't much else to do.

It was a good way to spend some time." WHEN HE was assigned here a year-and-a-half ago, the first thing he looked for on the base was a coin club. "They didn't have one," he says, "so the next thing I did was look for people who might be Interested In forming one." He found about a half dozen others, and together they organized the Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) Lakehurst Coin Club last May. It has 40 members and Is still growing, drawing not only servicemen but also civilians from the surrounding area, some of them juniors. Mr. Flfield is president of the NATTC club, and as such is perhaps its most active "recruiter." He's always on the lookout, too, for noncollector servicemen who may have brought back coins with them from tours of duty abroad.

"I ALWAYS hit fellas who've been around to different duty stations," he says, "and I pick up nice coins this way now and then." He's in a good spot to do so, as a meteorology instructor in the Aerographer's Mates Advanced School. His collection includes coins from all corners of the world, many of which he picked up personally while serving overseas. The coins of Japan are among his special favorites. "To me they are highly attractive," he says. "I believe the 1,000 yen coin struck for the 1964 Olympics is the most beautiful coin produced in modern times." He needs only about a half dozen coins to complete a type set of Japan's minor coins.

To Mr. Fifield's way of thinking, foreign coins are "much more attractive in general" than their U.S. Now Black deftly secures the win by bringing pressure to bear on White's weak queen's pawn. 30 B-N5 K-B3 31B-B6 K-K4 32 R-N7 R-KB 33 R-K7ch K-Q5 34 R-Q7 N-B3 White Resigns The White queen's pawn must fall. And after 35 there comes 35 K-K4.

CHESS PROBLEM NO. 198 P. F. Blake 2nd Prize Kentish Mercury, 1898 Black men By IIARRY T. CONOVER Press Staff Writer The Benoni Defense, long shunned by many masters as inadequate, appears to be emerging as a viable reply.

to 1 P-Q4. At least, more evidence Is piling up in the form of victories for Black in the Benoni as it gains favor in international play. A good example was Bobby Fschers win over Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany, in the interzonal tournament at Majorca. The game was of considerable theoretical interest to students of the defense. Here is the score: Chuck Fifield displays 100 mon Japanese coin, used in the mid-1 9th century, and points to Japan on the globe.

Mr. Fifield, a 15-year Navy man serving at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, has a collection of coins from around the world. Being in the Navy has helped him obtain them, he says. (Press Photo) 13 NxN! Removing Black's option on 13 BxN and posing some difficult problems which Fischer now sets out to solve. 13 RxN 14B-N5 iOn the surface it appears Black will be hard pressed to avoid material loss.

14 Q-K 15 B-Q3 BxN 16 QxB R-QN5 Black has come out of the complications a pawn ahead and with prospects of gaining another. 17QR-K B-K4! A grave mistake would be 17 QxP, because of the potent 18 R-K7. 18Q-Q QxP 19 QxQ RxQ 20 P-B4 B-Q5ch 21 K-R N-Q2 22 R-K7 N-B3 Black gave up one pawn in order to achieve a further reduction in forces. There followed 23 RxNP, N-R4; 24 K-R2, B-K6; 25 B-K2, BxI'ch; 26 BxB, RxB; 27 R-N6, RxR; 28 BxR, and Black replied: 28 R-Q 29 BxP K-N2 kens owned by John H. Harris, Neptune, can be seen throughout this month at the Ft.

Monmouth Post Library. BENONI DEFENSE SL i i p.m. Tuesday in Building 150 at the Naval Air Station. Membership is open to both servicemen and civilians, including juniors, and visitors are welcome. and Coin Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday in the Middletown Township Community Center, Five Comers, next to Police Headquarters. Visitors are welcome. White of Coins, Asbury Park Sunday Press, Asbury Park, N.J. 07712. Questions will not be answered individually, but periodic columns will be devoted to answering as many as possible particularly those of general interest.

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