The long-awaited second edition of Bowers' classic guide celebrates America's legendary $20 gold pieces in full color with expanded coverage, Greysheet-based pricing, and updated research for today's collectors.

Numismatic publicist Donn Pearlman, writing in The Numismatist in 1986, said, "[T]here are so many examples of misleading statements, misinterpretations and misguided advice that some numismatic literature could compete for the Clifford Irving Award for Contemporary Fiction."

The concept of coin collecting is slowly, but steadily, moving further into the mainstream consciousness.