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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Mint’s $20 offering ignores darker side of Frobisher expedition
OTTAWA – There’s two sides to every coin, and that certainly seems to be the case with the new $20 coin released by the Royal Canadian Mint. Struck to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the International Polar Year, the silver coin depicts, among other things, the 16th century Arctic explorer Martin Frobisher and an Inuit kayaker. The problem, says Canada’s main Inuit organization, is that it’s eerily reminiscent of the kidnapping of an Inuit kayaker by that explorer. Stephen Hendrie of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami in Ottawa said although the likeness was unintentional, he wants more consultation on future coin designs between the Mint and his group.

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