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!
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!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?
When New Kids on the Block (sorry, NKOTB) tried to re-invent their sound, let’s just say it was not successful.
Nixon in New York will be released on paperback in the fall. As such, here’s a post about my Richard Nixon coin.
As mentioned in Part I, Napoleon Bonaparte was on plenty of his empire’s official coinage. That was also true of unofficial ones.
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.
Sometimes, coins that were unpopular and widely denigrated in their day end up being vindicated by later generations.
The ANA World’s Fair of Money was intense. And lots of fun!