A rare instance where a band’s most successful album helped lead to its demise.
Maria Theresa never ruled the Holy Roman Empire, but she gave us a beautiful coin, and one of the most popular trade dollars ever.
80’s star Bryan Adams beat the odds and thrived in the 90s. Then came this album.
How do you replace the irreplaceable? You don’t — but INXS sure tried.
Don’t buy coins from China – because they’re probably fake.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Let’s get Guns N’ Roses to record a song for a 90s movie starring a Hollywood A-Lister! It
worked before!
It’s hard to believe that only one Supreme Court justice (who wasn’t previously President) has ever been on a government-issued coin.
Who would have thought a concept album inspired by the Falkland Islands War would end the most successful incarnation of Pink Floyd?
As the 1980s began, commemorative coins were deader than disco, Francisco Franco and The Eagles. But then George Washington’s 250th birthday changed everything.
It’s been said that great art comes out of great suffering or adversity. That wasn’t the case for Metallica’s “St. Anger.”