80’s star Bryan Adams beat the odds and thrived in the 90s. Then came this album.
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It’s hard to believe that only one Supreme Court justice (who wasn’t previously President) has ever been on a government-issued coin.
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How do you replace the irreplaceable? You don’t — but INXS sure tried.
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Who would have thought a concept album inspired by the Falkland Islands War would end the most successful incarnation of Pink Floyd?
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This is the coin that made me want to become a numismatist. Thanks mom!
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The 1982 George Washington Half Dollar: Commemorative Coins Make a Comeback
As the 1980s began, commemorative coins were deader than disco, Francisco Franco and The Eagles. But then George Washington’s 250th birthday changed everything.
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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.
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It’s been said that great art comes out of great suffering or adversity. That wasn’t the case for Metallica’s St. Anger.
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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.
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Sometimes, coins that were unpopular and widely denigrated in their day end up being vindicated by later generations.
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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?
Don’t buy coins from China – because they’re probably fake.
Van Halen made a triumphant appearance with David Lee Roth at the 1996 MTV VMAs. So then they made an album with Gary Cherone?
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.
Let’s get Guns N’ Roses to record a song for a 90s movie starring a Hollywood A-Lister! It
worked before!