The Greysheet also expanded into publishing proof and mint set pricing, type coin prices, and various series from the catalog of US gold coins. By the 1970s, Greysheet was regularly reporting on so-called singles pricing (prices for just one coin as opposed to roll-size quantities) for Morgan and Peace dollars, commemorative coins, and other popular series. Payne, though associate editor Allen Harriman eventually took editorial reigns in October 1964, staying on in that position through June 1984.Įven after the coin roll boom burst in the mid 1960s, Greysheet continued publishing coin roll prices but also began expanding into other areas of the market. Early on, the Greysheet was helmed by Orvil L. Pricing information was largely derived from sources based on the teletype coin exchange, then a new-fangled concept in the coin industry. CDN Publishing and its first weekly Greysheet publication were unveiled on Jduring the height of the coin roll market boom, when rolls of then-contemporary US coins such as Lincoln cents, Jefferson nickels, 90% silver Roosevelt dimes and Washington quarters, Franklin half dollars, and even silver dollars from a few decades earlier, were trading at escalating prices.