This is the coin that made me want to become a numismatist. Thanks mom!
Van Halen made a triumphant appearance with David Lee Roth at the 1996 MTV VMAs. So then they made an album with Gary Cherone?
As the 1980s began, commemorative coins were deader than disco, Francisco Franco and The Eagles. But then George Washington’s 250th birthday changed everything.
One thing I’ve learned is that federal politicians have a lot of power when it comes to coinage. Case in point: Sen. Jim McClure.
It’s been said that great art comes out of great suffering or adversity. That wasn’t the case for Metallica’s “St. Anger.”
Let’s get Guns N’ Roses to record a song for a 90s movie starring a Hollywood A-Lister! It
worked before!Sometimes, coins that were unpopular and widely denigrated in their day end up being vindicated by later generations.
When New Kids on the Block (sorry, NKOTB) tried to re-invent their sound, let’s just say it was not successful.
The ANA World’s Fair of Money was intense. And lots of fun!
As mentioned in Part I, Napoleon Bonaparte was on plenty of his empire’s official coinage. That was also true of unofficial ones.
My latest feature. In a lot of ways, this is the story I was born to write.
Lots of bands can’t follow up a career-defining album. “The Long Run” not only fell short of “Hotel California,” but it ended The Eagles.
Henry Clay may have failed to win the Presidency on five different occasions, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t on a lot of tokens.
I’ve talked about the coins I didn’t buy at the ANA World’s Fair of Money. So what about the ones I did buy?
“Nixon in New York” will be released on paperback in the fall. As such, here’s a post about my Richard Nixon coin.