Colin Gullberg writes:

Greetings from your new editor in Taiwan.

For the longest time I resisted approaching Rich Licato offering to take over the job of edi-tor of the CCC newslet-ter. It seemed like such a daunting job putting out a newsletter cover-ing a field of numismat-ics that little is known and agreeing to do it on a regular, hopefully quarterly, basis. Yet this is what I have decided to do.

You may well ask why?

Perhaps the answer is why mountain climbers attempt Everest: Be-cause it's there.

Seriously, I feel that I can offer something of interest to the club members and put out a quarterly publication.

Everett Jones started the newsletter in July 1990�BEFORE the internet existed� and managed to more than I probably ever will even with the resources avail-able on-line now. Mark Benvenuto and Rich Licato also did excellent jobs as editors. I can only hope I do half as good a job as my predecessors did.

Each edition will include an interview with some-one of interest. In addition, I am including columns where we can introduce ourselves [Meet our Members] as well as eBay sales. Most importantly, I am going to devote 2-3 pages of each issue exploring and as-signing individual numbers to each chopmark. This has never been done in any systematic way before but is the most important thing I think the newsletter will try to accomplish. It is a huge job as there are possibly thousands of different chopmarks.