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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8419967, member: 27832&quot;]<a href="http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page25.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page25.html" rel="nofollow">Exactly so</a>. Most boxes had a 2000 cent, but one box in 2000 had a dollar coin, and one of every 4400 boxes had a certificate that you could exchange for <i>100</i> of the new dollar coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>As it turned out, the $100 certificate was not the biggest prize, because the actual dollars included with the boxes were apparently mostly a prototype/pattern design. People didn&#039;t realize this until several years later, so presumably most of them simply got spent. Thus, the circulated &quot;Cheerios dollar&quot; examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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