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<p>[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 2197753, member: 24633"][USER=75119]@FWThomas[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm going to guess that your Dad was looking for one of the "Cheerios" variety which may have ended up in circulation. In 1999, a special Sacagawea die was produced to strike coins that were to be flown on the space shuttle. These dies were inadvertently used to strike a few thousand of the Sacagawea dollars that were used by General Mills as a promotion for the new millennium. Approximately 5,500 boxes of Cheerios contained a 2-coin set of the 2000-P cent and dollar. There is no way of knowing exactly how many of the 5,500 were the "Cheerios" variety. It has enhanced tail & wing feathers on the eagle. It is also assumed that some of these coins were spent by the kids who found them in the cereal box. In Mint condition, certified Cheerios dollars have sold for many, many thousands of dollars. </p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 2197753, member: 24633"][USER=75119]@FWThomas[/USER] I'm going to guess that your Dad was looking for one of the "Cheerios" variety which may have ended up in circulation. In 1999, a special Sacagawea die was produced to strike coins that were to be flown on the space shuttle. These dies were inadvertently used to strike a few thousand of the Sacagawea dollars that were used by General Mills as a promotion for the new millennium. Approximately 5,500 boxes of Cheerios contained a 2-coin set of the 2000-P cent and dollar. There is no way of knowing exactly how many of the 5,500 were the "Cheerios" variety. It has enhanced tail & wing feathers on the eagle. It is also assumed that some of these coins were spent by the kids who found them in the cereal box. In Mint condition, certified Cheerios dollars have sold for many, many thousands of dollars. Chris[/QUOTE]
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