cheerio sacagawea dollar

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"

 

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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

 

please dont It makes me wanna throw up. what cent do you have from a box?

 

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 ????

 

no he passed away before I got serious about varieties

 

sorry to hear that.

 

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.

 

center 2 tail feathers...

 

Sometimes us old geezers ARE RIGHT,eh?

 

Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut

 

Even a broken clock is still correct twice a day.........

 

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.

 

Only if it's analog... or blinking 12:00

 

hindsight is 20/20

 

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.