fretboard

Of all the Sacagawea Dollar coins minted in 2000, only 5500 of them, or 0.00043% of the overall total, were produced by the first die variety, and all of them found their way into private hands through Cheerios boxes. As of 2009, only a few sales of the "Cheerios Dollars" have been recorded, but the selling price per coin has reached as high as $11,500.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I know the high of $11,500 has been toppled as I got this off of an old site but this was quite an education for me. Was anyone on this site lucky enough to get ahold of one of these "Cheerios Dollars"?

Billy Kingsley

I wasn't, but I sure wish I was! I don't think they did that promotion here....I am sure that my mom would have gotten one for me if they did.

__________________
Billy Kingsley Member ANA, SPMC
I don't care about a coin or note's "value" or material composition. I care about what it is, and it's place in history!
Collector of all coins and currency!

RUFUSREDDOG

My box had a penny in it.

But I still have it.

__________________
"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."

Will Rogers

green18

An interesting read for you guys......

http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page20c.html

__________________
They also serve who only stand and wait....John Milton

green18

As well as this....


http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page24.html

__________________
They also serve who only stand and wait....John Milton

green18

Same as the one I posted earlier in the thread.....

__________________
They also serve who only stand and wait....John Milton

Fullmoonkid

lol so it is , sorry about that green18

zekeguzz

So that's what I swallowed! I think.

__________________
If you see a person without a smile, give them one of yours.

LostDutchman

I am a former owner of a cheerios dollar. I was lucky enough to buy one in the original packaging. PCGS graded is an MS67 and it was subsequently sold. I owned it for about 3 weeks... but that's good enough for me.

__________________
Matt Dinger
Lost Dutchman Rare Coins

jello

this should help

Attached Thumbnails

 

__________________
no one right 100% of the time
***The only dumb question is the one not asked***

fretboard

Well glad you had one contest man!! I was hoping someone on here landed one, good for you.

Bender

Back in 2000 I wasn't into coin collecting I think I took mine out of the packaging and put it in my pocket change....
But I do believe my father still has one.

bobbeth87

Thanks for the links

__________________
Bob

the_man12

Great info guys! I never knew that these were so expensive.

__________________
20th Century Uncirculated Whitman Type Set Folder: 32/37 (86.5%)

Conder101

Haven't read the links, but so far only one of these cheerios dollars has turned up in circulation. There are bound to be others, but they would be so thinly spread that if even all 5,500 were put into circulation and all you had were 2000 Sacs, you would have to go through an average of 117 two thousand con bags to fnd one, or roughly one for every 234,000 coins that you examined. Snce not all of them went into crculation, and there are many more small dollars out there than just the 2000 Sac dollars, the odds of finding one by roll searching is much worse than even those figures.

__________________
Slab collector and researcher
reported as of 12/29/06
132 companies 332 production varieties