I was 21 or 22 at the time these came out and I remember my dad telling me he had got a sacagawea from a cereal box and at the time I thought oh well it came from a box of cereal how big a deal could it be. I am in between the time that Coins and Cards came from boxes so I let it go and never thought nothing about it being a young coin collector. I want to kick myself in the ass now looking back too bad I didnt listen to my "old man"
I got a cent from a box and still have it in its packaging. those cherrios dollars sure have gone up in value.
Ebay has 2 right now...link: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...S0&_nkw=cheerio+sacagawea+dollar&_sacat=11983
year 2000 cent. do not have a pic of it. Ebay sells them for around $7 slabbed ones get higher $35-50 depending what grade it gets. Does your Dad still have that cherries dollar ????
Help me, I know next to nothing about Sac dollars. How do those differ from regular 2000 issues? At a glance, I'm not seeing it.
the middle tail feathers are very detailed. on the regular coins the feathers are very plain no life to them.
Lol I remember being in high school and finding a new golden dollar in the morning in the cereal box and then spending it in the coke machine at school when my aunt said I could take it. I imagine many others that were found also entered circulation but there's probably quite a few still out there in boxes, junk drawers, etc.
Supposedly there were apx 5500 of them put in boxes does anyone know how many of them been accounted for by grading services? I looked but can't find anything. My bank always has tons of Sacagawea's in the till I was think of looking for a needle in the haystack lol
PCGS: 411990 2000-P SAC$1 "Cheerios" Dollar 78 Also: http://www.pcgs.com/News/Cheerios-Sacagawea-Dollar-Found-Without-Enhanced-Tail-Feathers-Design NGC: https://www.ngccoin.com/census/united-states/dollars/53/?des=ms lists 2 (and 40 with the prototype reverse which I think is the same thing)
With only 5500 made specifically for the Cheerio promotion, I have to believe that reverse die was used by the mint for business strikes also, unless Cheerios "owned" the die. 5500 pieces is an awfully low mintage for a die.
The story I've read is that in order to meet the requirements for packaging the cereal to meet up with the coin's release date they had to use a prototype die. The strikes happened while the production dies were being prepared. There were several dies used, not all of the Cherrios packages had the rare coin.