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About Heritage Auctions - Executive
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Born in Boston in 1952, Jim formed a part-time rare stamp and coin
business at age 16, the same year he received early acceptance to Harvard
College. But by his third semester Jim was enjoying the coin business more than
his studies, so he took a permanent leave of absence to pursue a full-time
numismatic career. In 1975, Jim supervised the protocols for the first
mainframe computer system in the numismatic business, which would help catapult
his firm to the top of the industry within four years. In 1982, Jim's business
merged with that of his friend and former archrival Steve Ivy to form Heritage.
In 1984, Jim wrote a book later re-titled "How to Grade U.S. Coins",
which outlined the grading standards upon which NGC and PCGS would later be
based. Jim is also a well-known futurist, an active collector of rare comic
books, comic art and early 20th-century American art (view parts of his
collection www.jhalpe.com), venture
capital investor, philanthropist (he endows a multimillion-dollar
health/education foundation), and part-time novelist. His first fiction book,
The Truth Machine, was published in 1996, became an international science
fiction bestseller optioned as a feature film by Warner Brothers, then
Lionsgate. Jim's second novel, The First Immortal, was published in early 1998
and optioned as a Hallmark Hall of Fame television miniseries. Both are now
under development as feature films by Morgan Freeman at Revelations
Entertainment. Jim donates all of his book royalties, and his entire annual
salary from Heritage, to health and education charities.
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