The "Cheerios Cent" a question?

joeykoins

Hi guy's. Happy Friday! Just received this wonderful gift in the mail yesterday. How awesome to get something like this from a dear friend, isn't it? I don't know if I want to send it in to our Host or just keep it intact in the original wrapping? Over 20 years old in this holder.
Anyway, my question. Do you guy's know of any reporting of the famous "Wide AM" Variety in these Cheerios cent giveaways? It is quite possible one, if not more than one, got out with this promotion?
Of course, I think it would be impossible to detect if when sending the coin in to get graded, the Cent must not leave the original casing. So how would anyone determine what's on the reverse, right? Unless, there might be some kind of die marker on the obverse, to show it's the WAM variety. Just wondering. Thanks guy's. Here's that wonderful gift I got.

DCW

Joey,
Save your money and keep that baby right where it is. A nice momento but certainly not worth sending in for grading, Wide AM or not.
There are a ton of these out there.

ChrisH821

I would keep it as-is. I have one here myself that we got in a box back in 2000.
Remember, there are(were) 10 million of these, so they aren't exactly rare, or even scarce.
Why did they put that "Name, Event, Date" box on the back of these?

joeykoins

@ChrisH821 said:

Why did they put that "Name, Event, Date" box on the back of these?

Huh? Very good question. Maybe someone could answer that question here? They ( any cereal company) should do this promotion again. Maybe even with a "silver" coin inside. Imagine the frenzy? Lol. I can see it now. People ( us crazy collectors) would be tearing those boxes open in the stores before they purchase them. Lol. I'm not saying I would do such a foolish thing but knowing this world nowadays?

Kurisu

@joeykoins said:

@ChrisH821 said:

Why did they put that "Name, Event, Date" box on the back of these?

Huh? Very good question. Maybe someone could answer that question here? They ( any cereal company) should do this promotion again. Maybe even with a "silver" coin inside. Imagine the frenzy? Lol. I can see it now. People ( us crazy collectors) would be tearing those boxes open in the stores before they purchase them. Lol. I'm not saying I would do such a foolish thing but knowing this world nowadays?

Because kids like to own things
I would've freaked out when I was 9 and something like that fell out of the cereal box lol!
And then my little brother and I would've battled to see who gets to put their name on it
I have many memories of the prizes falling out of the box or sticking our arm right into the cereal to get the prize lo!!!

I have a couple Cheerios cents...one of them was touched by a Mint worker or someone working in marketing loading those pennies...I can just imagine a whole bunch of people at the General Mills office sitting around handling the pennies and putting them into the shrink wrap machine.... I wonder if anyone in the forums was actually involved?!

Here is my "Who the heck touched my Cheerios Penny, penny"

koynekwest

It is not worth the cost of certification. Do it for aesthetic purposes only.

Smudge

Mine is in the junk box.

lkeigwin

@Smudge said:
Mine is in the junk box.

Same. I should probably give it to someone who would appreciate it. I think it's worth less than $10.
Lance.

Onastone

I've got one. I don't even remember buying the box of cereal to get it.

joeykoins

@lkeigwin said:

@Smudge said:
Mine is in the junk box.

Same. I should probably give it to someone who would appreciate it. I think it's worth less than $10.
Lance.

He's asking $275

Kurisu

@joeykoins said:

@lkeigwin said:

@Smudge said:
Mine is in the junk box.

Same. I should probably give it to someone who would appreciate it. I think it's worth less than $10.
Lance.

He's asking $275

That's about right...only worth grading really in MS67 and up https://www.pcgs.com/prices/detail/lincoln-cent-modern-1959-date/47/most-active/ms?baseCoinSpecNo=3160&specNo=515762&pn=-207

Smudge

The op coin doesn’t look like a 67 to me.

bsshog40

I have one too. Not sure where I got it from. Don't really care if it doesn't have much value, I think it's kind of neat.

joeykoins

@Smudge said:
The op coin doesn’t look like a 67 to me.

Ah, com' on, wanna look through my "rose-colored glasses?" Lol

joeykoins

@bsshog40 said:
I have one too. Not sure where I got it from. Don't really care if it doesn't have much value, I think it's kind of neat.

Very neat! When was the last time any cereal company offered a coin inside their box? Even Cracker Jack never had a coin inside their boxes. Esp. when a coin turns out to be very valuable, such as the Sac. Dollar?

lkeigwin

@joeykoins said:

@lkeigwin said:

@Smudge said:
Mine is in the junk box.

Same. I should probably give it to someone who would appreciate it. I think it's worth less than $10.
Lance.

He's asking $275

Right. Mine's not certified but I'll take a tenth of that. Anyone? Free shipping.
Lance.

CoinHoarder

I remember when I got mine. It was the very early days of January 2000. I had read an article in the newspaper about the coins being released in the boxes of Cheerios.

I was big into the Y2K memorabilia back then. And of course being a coin collector, I had to have one of the "first" 10 million issued coins of the new century.

I immediately went to Kroger to snag the coins. The front of the box showed that you had a small chance of getting one of the newly issued Sac Dollars. I bought two boxes of Cheerios, just to get the coins.

To my disapoinment, I did not get a Sac Dollar. I took the two souvenir cents of the new milenium, along with the receipt for the cereal, and placed them in an envelope, where they reside today.