I got 5 gold bars.  

Somehow I missed logging in, when I checked in I'm back to Day 1  Oh, well, nothing to do and nothing to use these mysterious stars on anyway.  I had lots of quests in AK but I can't play that, I have nothing to do in this one except use some of my energy every day.  I usually play a few rounds in the junkyard looking for an evening dress and I've been making myself play the glove game, I usually do #10 for the Daimyo's Reply, it's about the only one I can stand, it's all flowers.  I'm helpless at the leaves, I don't even know what kinds they are, I always get them confused.  I refer to them as pretty (maple leaf, I guess), fan, skinny pointy, pointy, fat pointy, 3 pointy, (lots of pointys), ugly(I think they're oak leaves), green, and  some other names so you can see how I have a hard time matching them.  At least with the flowers I can remember the colors they are.

There's an update!

Well apparently I came in at the end of the update day.  The daily quests now seem to be to win (no buyouts) an item from the auction.  There was only something like 32 minutes left in the quest and the soonest any of the items expired was 4 hours.  Also there's a new area but your Antique store has to be at 1000 or 1500.  There's nothing that tells you how you get there though.  And there's a whole bunch of "stuff" (toys, I think) at the other end of the bar from the specials.  Independence Day starts in 15 days.

You can find your antique shop rating by clicking on your avatar.  I have a high enough rating, but that woman still won't let me in.  Maybe it will be part of a quest?

We can now gift keys.  You have to upgrade the building next to the auction house.  For each upgrade you do, a different chest will become available.  Select a chest, and a red exclaimation pount will show above your icon when your friends check their wishlist.  Click on your friend and you can send them a key.  You can gift the same friend more than once.  Not sure how many keys you can send out each day, it's at least 10.

When a friend sends you a key, you will receive an email/pm tellling you which friend helped you.  You will want to find a method of keeping track who you sent keys to and who sent keys to you.

There's one hell of a glitch in the game.  We are now allowed to auction off our extra special event collectibles, but you buy and sell them with gold bars.  HOWEVER, the first time somebody buys one of your special collectibles, your gold total suddenly equals the amount of your coins.  I now have over 11 million gold bars!!!!!!  So auction off something and put a low buyout price so that it will be snatched up immediately.

We can now set auction times for less than 1 day.

What bar are you talking about, lilyr?  One of the counters in our antique shop?  I'm not seeing anything extra.