akdrv Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 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. When nobody claimed the coin after Claiborne's death in 2000, it made its way into a vault near the state Capitol where it joined thousands of other homeless treasures — $72 million worth from accounts in Palm Beach County alone. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/pal...0,3451855.story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akdrv Posted July 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 Someone needs to show this woman how to handle rare coins... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roaddevil Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 its an amazing story too bad my families hierloom is a necklace >_> which my bro will get >_< xD an 2 of my great gran pa's rings ruby an emerald i got em now safe in a box <3 hmm y didnt any1 think of a coin xD >_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.