"I've been communicating with a fellow collector (Alan Peterson) of Philippine CSI notes. Anyway, he sent me a scan of the cover of Barrilla Vol. I, No. 2. I look at it & I email him & tell him that "his" Barrilla has the same markings on the cover (initials & the #2 circled) as mine & that I found it strange. He then tells me that the scan was not of a Barrilla that he owned but rather from the Newman Numismatic Portal & that obviously the scan was of my original Barrilla. He also told me that he does not have a complete hard copy set but, because of the NNP, he is able to have a complete digital set. (I think that there are only 3 complete hard copy sets extant & one of them is held by the Central Bank of the Philippines.)

"I feel good that all our effort to get my complete set of Barrillas uploaded into the NNP is serving a useful purpose & helping to advance the study of Philippine numismatics."

This periodical is one we sought for some time for the Portal. Ken answered the call in The E-Sylum and Len doggedly obtained permission from the publisher, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Money Museum. By the way, the barilla was the first coin struck in the Philippines by Spain in 1728. -Editor