Media Relations
Press Release - June 13, 2002
First Heritage Bullet Auction Using TeleBid™ Technology Realizes $681,812
Dallas, TX -- Heritage's Central States Bullet Auction, which closed Sunday night, June 10, turned in a terrific sale, with a total sell-through of $681,812. With 865 bidders competing for 2,159 lots, 411 were successful. 91% of lots found new owners.“It was the first Bullet sale using our TeleBid™ phone bidding system,” stated Heritage’s co-owner, Jim Halperin. “TeleBid™ has already proven very popular. This new fully automated Heritage feature makes participating even easier. You don’t even have to be at your computer - a phone call will do it. Just dial our toll-free TeleBid™ number 1-866-445-1245.”
Heritage’s Bullet auctions are posted at Heritage’s award winning website http://www.HeritageCoin.com and are also displayed in person at the coin convention with which they are associated. Every single-coin lot includes full color enlargeable images of the obverse and reverse, latest population and third-party pricing data, and comparable auction records to help bidders determine their bids with confidence. HeritageCoin members who sign up with My Wantlist™ online are automatically notified whenever specific coins they need are posted for bidding.
Here are just a few of the highlights sold in the June 10 Bullet Auction:
1879-CC $20 AU58 PCGS $10,925.00
http://www.heritagecoin.com/auctions/closedviewlot.asp?s=293&l=1787&zoom=1
1879 $3 MS65 PCGS $10,062.50
http://www.heritagecoin.com/auctions/closedviewlot.asp?s=293&l=1548&zoom=1
1903-S $20 MS65 PCGS $8,050.00
http://www.heritagecoin.com/auctions/closedviewlot.asp?s=293&l=1834&zoom=1
1893-S S$1 XF45 PCGS $5,750.00
http://www.heritagecoin.com/auctions/closedviewlot.asp?s=293&l=1314&zoom=1
1842 25C MS64 PCGS $5,520.00
1840 $2 1/2 MS62 NGC $5,520.00
1833 H10C MS67 NGC $5,405.00
1868 G$1 MS66 PCGS $5,290.00
1935 50C Hudson MS67 NGC $5,175.00
1921-D 10C MS66 NGC $4,600.00
The complete prices realized along with full-color images of every coin in this sale, and all other Heritage auctions, are available at no charge to HeritageCoin members at: http://www.heritagecoin.com/auctions/PricesRealized.asp (membership is totally free).

