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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 24624283, member: 73489&quot;]Bowers&#039; <b><i><span style="color: #0000ff">U.S. LIBERTY HEAD $20 DOUBLE EAGLES: The Gilded Age of Coinage.</span></i></b>&nbsp; This is a very good book which is more of a yearly review of economic, monetary, and gold/silver related items plus interesting historical events and trivial facts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rather than create a separate thread for another Double Eagle book, I am piggy-backing on my own Saints book thread. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Each chapter focuses on a particular year from 1849-1907, the years of the Liberty Double Eagle.&nbsp; </b>I think this book had a very limited press run and was mostly given to clients of David Bower&#039;s firm a few years ago, but you occasionally see it for sale on Ebay or antique book sellers.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are into Liberty Head DEs, given the paucity of books on these coins, I&#039;d buy this if you see it.&nbsp; It&#039;s well-made, well-bound, and worth a good read though it is NOT a year-by-year detailed look at each year&#039;s coinage for LH Double Eagles like the Whitman Red Book or Roger Burdette&#039;s Saint-Gaudens book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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