Collectors are continuing to find variations on the 2007 John Adams Presidential dollars. Aside from the obvious activity on the double edge inscription and plain edge errors, one of the more frequent variations I am getting questions about is what appears to be two different font sizes being used for the edge inscriptions. Some of the coins appear to have smaller inscriptions than others. The smaller inscriptions are crisp with their lowest points tapering to a “V” while the larger inscriptions are wider and shallower with flat bottoms where a texture can often be seen.

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Can you name our Nation’s Presidents in the order they served? The United States Mint will send Thomas Jefferson re-enactors to quiz Jefferson Memorial visitors on August 15, 2007, about their knowledge of the Nation’s Presidents as part of a news conference to introduce the new Thomas Jefferson $1 Coin. The United States Mint has commissioned a more scientific survey and will announce the results at the news conference.

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A rare 1907 gold coin worth as much as $90,000 and commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt found its way back to a Lake Worth woman on Thursday, years after her family thought it was missing. Phyllis Childers, the great-great-granddaughter of the first president of Panama, received the coin in a small afternoon ceremony in Tallahassee. Childers, 49, told state officials that Roosevelt had given the half-dollar-sized coin to Panamanian President Manuel Amador Guerrero. It had been missing since 1997, when Childers’ mother, Tere Claiborne, placed it in a safety deposit box at a local bank and later lost the paperwork.

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BiggsKofford, auditing firm for the American Numismatic Association 2007 Board of Governors’ election, has reported the following election results: Barry S. Stuppler, President - Patricia Jagger-Finner VP - Successful Candidates for Governor inclued: Clifford Mishler, Chester L. Krause, Edward C. Rochette, Joseph E. Boling, Radford Stearns, Walter A. Ostromecki, Wendell A. Wolka. Unsuccessful Candidates for Governor included: Alan Herbert, Donald H. Kagin, Anthony Tumonis, M. Remy Bourne, Carl Schwenker III, Arthur M. Fitts, Michael B. Doran, John R. Eshbach and Donald H. Dool.

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