James L. Halperin

James L. Halperin

James L. Halperin (born October 31, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author and businessman. Halperin authored a text on grading coins, "How to Grade U.S. Coins", upon which the grading standards of the two leading third-party grading services PCGS and NGC were ultimately based. He is also author of two fiction books, "The Truth Machine" (1996) and "The First Immortal" (1997). The Truth Machine is currently under development as a motion picture at Lionsgate.

Halperin attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, then attended Harvard University between 1970-1971 where he majored in psychology and later philosophy. After three semesters, Halperin took a permanent leave of absence to pursue a career in numismatic. In 1976 he established a rare coin fund for investors, New England Rare Coin Fund (NERCF). Upon liquidation at auction in April 1980, each investor in NERCF received 460% of their initial investment after commissions and fees.Fact|date=October 2008

In 1982, he sold his coin company to a former employee, entered into a 50/50 business partnership with renowned numismatist Steve Ivy and settled in Dallas, Texas. Halperin and Ivy still co-direct Heritage Auction Galleries, of Dallas, Texas, which claims to be the world's largest rare coin company and third largest auction house (2007 sales of approximately $600 million).

A profile on Halperin appeared in Forbes in 2004 [Christopher Helman, [http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/1227/156_print.html Top Drawer] ] , to which Halperin posted a rebuttal on his website. [Halperin, Jim [http://coins.ha.com/common/halperin.php What Forbes Didn't Tell You] ]

Halperin also endows a health education foundation which supports several charities.Fact|date=October 2008

He has been married to his wife Gayle since 1984 and they have two sons, David (born 1991) and Michael (born 1995).

External links

* [http://coins.heritageauctions.com/common/about.php?target=halperin&wikipedia-halperinbio-040207 James L. Halperin] autobiography
* [http://www.truthmachine.com/?wikipedia-halperintm-040207 The Truth Machine] : free download
* [http://www.firstimmortal.com/?wikipedia-halperinfi-040207 The First Immortal] : free download
* [http://www.coingrading.com/?wikipedia-halperingrade-040207 How to Grade U.S. Coins]
* [http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/1227/156_print.html 2004 Forbes Top Drawer]

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