In August of 2004, the Numismatic Literary Guild named Potter as the author of the best article (or series or articles) on coins to appear in a Numismatic Newspaper (in 2003) for his "Spiked Head" on proof coins series that appeared in Numismatic News and again for the same honor in 2008 for his series on Presidential dollar coin errors appearing in Numismatic News in 2007.