Real Cherrios Cents

I wondered the exact same question, Sal. The only thing I could think of is people are digging through the Sacagawea dollars looking for the "Cheerios" dollar (w/enhanced tail feathers)? They want to have the complete "Cheerios" set?

 

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I still has min in the original package

 

I may have missed something, but, would the "Cheerios Cent" be worth more if the cereal box is still sealed and 11 years old? I doubt the cereal is any good, but a sealed package possibly could be worth more to a collector I wonder if you could get a "baggie" could be large enough to put the cereal box in and keep it in the freezer? Anyway, I had never heard of the "Cheerio Cent" until this topic was posted.

 

I have a couple of these but I love showing the one that someone at the mint or at General Mills touched lol!!!

I imagine a bunch of office workers being recruited to package the pennies for hours on end lol. I've never been able to find out if the mint packaged them for General Mills or if it was outsourced or something.

I remember my brother and I sticking our entire arms into cereal boxes to get the prize lol! We were adults when this giveaway was about but I bought a few of them years ago.

If someone here was involved back then...who the heck touched my Cheerios Penny?!

 

Well, if it's a sealed box, and never opened, I'd supposed people could speculate on if the dollar coin is in it, and it might be the pattern reverse Sacagawea dollar... I'd think a sealed, unopened and unsearched box would do a bit better than a cheerios cent still in it's package due to the speculation there might be a dollar coin in there with it.

 

Ya know way back then, General Mills made "Millenios" also, "The official cereal of the millennium!"
it was kind of like frosted Cheerios with 2's added in. LOL , it was a different recipe of oats and corn. like a sugary cross between kix and cheerios.

it was pretty good actually.

 

Were any of them WAMs, I wonder?

 

According to the TPGs, none attributed as WAM on the slabs as of yet. there's been chatroom rumors since the WAMs were found that it existed.

Anyways the 2000 WAM is like $5.00 The cheerios cent is like $5-$10, and either way not much more than that unless high grade. I can't see it making it anything different except for a slab that reads:

"Cheerios" Cent
Wide AM FS-901

might be worth a premium to someone, but can't really see it happening. MS-68 maybe around $200 either way or with both on the slab I'd think. But I'm not a slab collector, so what do I know.

I'd think you'd need to pay for the attribution for the WAM, and for that you'd need to open the package to see the reverse, or pay for it blindly I guess and keep your fingers crossed.
and if you open the package it's not a "Cheerios" cent anymore, so it's kind of a catch 22.

No conclusive evidence, due to how it's packaged, that there are Wide AMs in the mix though.

 

Not wanting to play devil's advocate, but those are asking prices. No guarantee they'll sell for that.

 

What a great advertising campaign it would have been if Cheerios had sprinkled in a few other Lincoln gems, along with the 2000's, all of them PCGS graded MS65 Reds. Nationwide, maybe two hundred 1930's, fifty of the 1931-S and 1932-D's, five 1909S-VDB's and one each of the 1914-D and 1915-S. Even though the odds of hitting pay dirt would be in the same neighborhood as hitting Powerball, I probably would have still gobbled up bowls of Cheerios at an alarming clip.

 

and don't forget the Cheerio Dollar.

those are going for a lot of cheerios right now....

 

I have five (5) of the cents, all in their original packaging (not the cereal boxes) and well cared for, and that's the reason (so far) that I'll never slab them, because it's been my understanding that holders of any kind are not returned by TPGs and I want to keep the little Cheerios holders. If they change/have changed that policy, then maybe. Cheerio!

 

Cool photos/scans of the boxes...blast from the past, if only 20-plus years. Thanks!

 

Just noticed 1 of my 5 has a print...the others are clean on their obverse. On the TPG thread for these, noticed that NGC lists them in their regular modern Lincoln Cent category, starting out at $55. in MS65. PCGS, although they've graded some, doesn't seem to list them at all that I've been able to find...tried all categories I could think of and key words in "search" doesn't help. Maybe I missed something.

 

PT Barnum never said this.
Yes it is true that it is attributed to him, and people have been saying it for over 100 years. But there is nothing documented that he ever said this. And it is mentioned that he would never speak about his customers in such a manner.

 

Like I said, he was known for the phrase, I didn't say that he actually said it.