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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 7836947, member: 105098"]No not by weight. Open the box. any weight will be inconclusive due to the gram variances of the cereal and weight at time of packing as well as likely weight loss after 20 years of it going stale and drying out more.</p><p><br /></p><p>What are you gonna do, keep a box of cheerios for 40 years, find one day that rats or bugs tore through it and the coins packaging? LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>The box of cheerios has no real worth, it's surely stale 20 years later, you can open it, take out the cereal and coin and re-close the box for a display if you like. the worth comes in the "unopened box" or "unopened bank roll" routine that preys on people's desire to take a gamble. </p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is the seller opened the box and re-closed it. an xray should show the metal, whether it's one small cent of the cent and the dollar coin, but you'd really need to know someone that does xrays and willing to play around for free, because xrays aren't cheap.</p><p><br /></p><p>it was 10 million cents, 5,500 dollars. every 4,400th box contained a certificate redeemable for 100 Golden Dollars (which is probably long expired and no longer valid) In all likelihood it's going to be just a cent in there. 10 million boxes of cents, 7773 chances to find a prize better than a cent. 1 better prize per 1,287 boxes roughly. </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe you could sell the box blind for $200. it's most likely got a cent in it and someone went through the trouble to find out the hard way, or,,,, carefully checked and re-glued it shut. Heck in 20 years, the OM glue should have released on it's own, just being real about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 7836947, member: 105098"]No not by weight. Open the box. any weight will be inconclusive due to the gram variances of the cereal and weight at time of packing as well as likely weight loss after 20 years of it going stale and drying out more. What are you gonna do, keep a box of cheerios for 40 years, find one day that rats or bugs tore through it and the coins packaging? LOL The box of cheerios has no real worth, it's surely stale 20 years later, you can open it, take out the cereal and coin and re-close the box for a display if you like. the worth comes in the "unopened box" or "unopened bank roll" routine that preys on people's desire to take a gamble. My guess is the seller opened the box and re-closed it. an xray should show the metal, whether it's one small cent of the cent and the dollar coin, but you'd really need to know someone that does xrays and willing to play around for free, because xrays aren't cheap. it was 10 million cents, 5,500 dollars. every 4,400th box contained a certificate redeemable for 100 Golden Dollars (which is probably long expired and no longer valid) In all likelihood it's going to be just a cent in there. 10 million boxes of cents, 7773 chances to find a prize better than a cent. 1 better prize per 1,287 boxes roughly. Maybe you could sell the box blind for $200. it's most likely got a cent in it and someone went through the trouble to find out the hard way, or,,,, carefully checked and re-glued it shut. Heck in 20 years, the OM glue should have released on it's own, just being real about it.[/QUOTE]
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