“Oh honey, look at this one!” my wife gesticulated to me one night, holding out her phone with glee. It was a picture of a small, tan-and-white dog named “Axel.” …

Mark Knopfler writes his own ending to the Dire Straits story.

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.

It’s hard to believe that only one Supreme Court justice (who wasn’t previously President) has ever been on a government-issued coin.

How do you replace the irreplaceable? You don’t — but INXS sure tried.

Who would have thought a concept album inspired by the Falkland Islands War would end the most successful incarnation of Pink Floyd?

This is the coin that made me want to become a numismatist. Thanks mom!

As the 1980s began, commemorative coins were deader than disco, Francisco Franco and The Eagles. But then George Washington’s 250th birthday changed everything.

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.