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Cheerios Cents in Uncut Strips
dennis5151
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On eBay, I recently snatched up a "few" uncut strips of Cheerios Cents. More than I want my wife to know about.
The seller said he got them from an online charity auction. He claims he has no other information on them.
I overpaid of course. I live by the rule, "Buy High, Sell Higher."
The good news is some will grade very high. The bad news is to get them graded, I have to cut the strips and I do not see that happening.
Here is a picture of my favorite threesome with the middle showing a reverse.
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i've never heard of uncut strips
don't remove them from the packaging to submit them
unless they are really high grades, don't submit them, if genuine and common grades, they are worth more as-is
since you are seeing only 1 side, there is risk in grading them
@CaptHenway
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First I've heard of these.
Edited to remove a hasty note written while I was sitting in the parking lot of the school where my daughter teaches waiting to give her a ride home. I was wrong.
A while back there was a strip of 20 on eBay that I bid on because it was a novelty, but I did not chase it. Then when I saw a strip of five I just assumed that the strip of 20 had been broken up. Nobody bid on it, so I made the seller an offer a few hours before the closing time and he accepted it. I have put it in my original Cheerios box that I bought in January of 2000.
I think that the uncut strips are cute, and as no other hoards of them have surfaced in 24 years there are probably no other hoards of them out there. That said, if any uncut strips of the two-coin Dollar and Cent holders turn up from this source, please let me know!
Edited to say: As for slabbing any of them, kindly don't. There are almost 10,000,000 other pieces eligible for slabbing, so leave the novelty strips intact for crazy collectors like myself.
Out of curiosity I looked up the cent on NGC to see if it garnered a Cheerios designation like that of the dollar. https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/united-states/cents/lincoln-cents-memorial-reverse-1959-2008/819556/2000-cheerios-promotion-1c-ms/ Surprisingly the majority of those submitted fall under MS66 and seem to bring a nice profit. Just saying.
@dennis5151 I have bought 5 indivual cheerios cents for around $15 each. I have sent them to NGC for grading. Howuch did you pay per cent?
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Shipping adds a lot to these. I was initially embarressed to pay an average of $21.63 but I see several really clean cents in the roll. Clean enough I can convince myself the price was worth it. Of course, if we look hard enough, we see what we Need to see.
Considering how few of the dollars have surfaced so far, it would not surprise me!
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I buy them at $10 all day long, and then sell at $5 after my buyers remorse.
bob
What's the reasonable explanation for; where the heck are they all?
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That seems pretty high.
The $15 per cent included shipping too. If you check maybe you could get them for less. I did not think $15 was out of line for nice ones.
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A few recent sales.
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In 1999, a strip of 40 or so dollars would have been a day's minimum wage. If stolen, they were probally opened and spent on beer instead of milk for the kid's Cheerios.
Roughly 5% of the 5500 have been graded. I think a lot are still in circulation.
The fine detailed tailfeathers are not easily seen with the naked eye. It took years for CaptHenway to discover the variety even existed. Most people still do not know they exist.
The two circulated dollars I have are ANACS graded AU55 and 58. The tailfeather details are not visable to my 71 year old eyes, even with glasses.
Using the cell phone camera with magnification is helpfull if you are searching for these. Here are mine magnified by the cell phone.
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I have a bunch of them I bought for $7. I struggled to sell for $12 in ebay, although I haven't tried in a couple years.
You definitely got a better buy than me. You might find buyers here. I have 3 graded and 3 that I plan to send in for grading. I bought mine on Ebay and that is why I paid a little more. You know, you always get the best quality on the Bay. Ha Ha.
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I just checked and they do seem to be going for $13 to $25 on ebay, so you probably did okay. Maybe it's just me. Lol
Ebay has to offer an uncut strip of 21 2000 Cheerio Cents currently bid at $305. Wow never heard of strips.
Jim
Ebay auction https://www.ebay.com/itm/235488423981?itmmeta=01HT1AVX3302K9ZK2XBEH7MYFJ&hash=item36d434302d:g:RhsAAOSwkAll~usv&itmprp=enc:AQAJAAAA8O/+ER9ph6Mm81EU1AUSNvwRVcgxpvUkZjT0GZQCKF5Y1+yVhljc50HNgV5z2cn6V/bh6Ed01rVHtNgb7mtHXidRj0iKGzEo+4Jk96CDqWzBscYZr4KLeK8eQTYjzNPCdr+doyAaiDopSVfgHeB0Rnf+ocvFE9bCQHYl9llT25MxJSEsLWNu7iX8zUWjrwsjSJBiXpk7CJMaMUArTqygbcPWgKGxeUNLr+VQnQiwYr7RUBUNI8ihVEgr7jOGVC818U0B94DIZTIDtgrXX7v4kE5GcBHNfD7r/xNy9Fet9xT+RydibhzG/6fnAndss0O0Ew==|tkp:Bk9SR9TR76rQYw
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