I picked this up last weekend. The hit in the field in front of the chin is on the coin. The one behind his head is on the package. The hit probably precludes a 67, but the coin is red and otherwise no visible marks. Possibly a couple of stains...wonder at what grade would be worth to send for slabbing?
Looking at sales on ebay and they seem to be going for ~$30 at the most. Not at all worth the money to send it in.
I have no plans to actually send it in, but PCGS says a 66 is $50 (retail), 67 is $260 and a 68 is $4k!
There is a marker for the accented tail feathers on the Sacagawea. But I believe you are correct for the Lincoln.
To me the coin looks to be in the 65-66 range. The grading fees would be about the value of the coin.
I think anyone who would buy a graded Cherrios Cent is just buying a cent no different than billions of others. It's the original packaging that gives it value (if any).
I agree. The COA says 1 in 10 million, but without it in that package it is exactly like the other 5.5 billion cents struck at Philadelphia in 2000. It would be cool, I think, to have one in a slab attributed and graded as a Cheerio cent and one in the package. Even cooler would be if you were the one that pulled them out of the boxes of cereal 21 years ago...
Perhaps there's a TPG that will grade the coin while preserving the original packaging...like ANACS did with the Nixon Silver Dollars.
Hmmm...that is a conundrum. Still, it wouldn't hurt to ask the TPGs what they could do. Bottom line...this isn't a die variety like the Dollar.
As far as I'm aware, no WAM has been found on the 2000 cheerios cents that have been sent in for grading so far.
I pulled this one out of the box. I just didn't realize that they had increased in value. I'll have to move it from the bottom of the pile.