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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