cheerio cents

cdwegner · April 13, 2004 12:29PM

does anyone have a picture of a slabbed cheerio cent?

DominusDeus · April 13, 2004 12:32PM

I don't have a slabbed one (not that I have the money TO get one slabbed), But I have one in the origonal cardbard sheet for the year 2000 in my safe at home. Supposedly one of the first 10,000,000 minted.

cdwegner · April 13, 2004 12:33PM

someone mentioned that one of the non-PCGS/NGC slabbers would slab them with "CHEERIOS" on the label. It was either ANACS or ICG. I'm curious what they look like.

DominusDeus · April 13, 2004 12:37PM

Hrm, that would be very cool. Then again, if I got mine slabbed, I would no longer have the cent in the origonal cheerio's package. lol

coppercoins · April 13, 2004 12:37PM

Dunno 'bout that but I have a couple dozen of the ones Cheerios wrapped up for me

cdwegner · April 13, 2004 12:39PM

what was the 'big' giveaway? some were Sacagawea's??

DominusDeus · April 13, 2004 12:43PM

Yes, it was. The cardboard thing my cent is in has pics of the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar on it, as well as the 2000 cent.

Sadly, I only ever got ONE box of cheerios way back when, and since then, I've had maybe 4 bowles total of any type of cheerios (that should tell you about how often I get cereal, and when I DO get cereal, it's gone about as fast as I can open the box...).

cdwegner · April 13, 2004 12:47PM

I have never seen a cheerio's sacagawea... hahaha

Unimental · April 13, 2004 12:50PM

On topic, but in left field...

Have you ever looked at a Cheerio and wonder what it would grade?

I do this sometimes with Altoids... seriously.

DominusDeus · April 13, 2004 12:58PM

Found a site that has scans of the box and a 2000 cent in the cheerio holder.

Damn I wish I would've won $100 worth of sacagawea dollars.....

cdwegner · April 13, 2004 1:01PM

that scanned cheerio is too cool.

MassFullStepper · April 13, 2004 1:19PM

I actually have a slabbed 'Cheerios' cent, from ANACS (not at all sure/unsure if anyone else slabbed them) ....and yes, they do 'attribute' it, or does 'pedigree' sound better? ANACS places the pedigree just under the cert #. Regardless, mine is MS64...and as one would guess from being slammed by a bunch of other cents, no doubt handled with kid gloves at slabbing, and finally being HAMMERED by a bunch of Cheerios, it has its share of contact marks and does exhibit a TINY fleck here and there...but overall, nothing spectacular, just a solid MS64 2000 Lincoln (did I say "solid MS64 2000 Lincoln cent"??? That sounds so ebayish...lol)...I wanted grab one (why, I have no idea) but didnt want one in the cardboard holder (they are kinda cheesy that way, and I just happened to see this one on ebay, for all of $4.00, not including s/h/i)...I pretty much got it for the story...that story being "... if I cant have a 'Jack Lee PCGS Tour' pedigree, then the next best thing for me is 'Cheerios'"....(yeah, I think 'pedigree' sounds better). I will try to have an image of it tomorrow (my coin pic skills have yet to be tested, so why the heck not on a 'Cheerios' cent? Quite honestly?? I NEVER thought this would be brought up on these boards, but look at what happened...I seem to be one of the few that actually has one, AND I get a chance to play with my 'Cheerios' cent!!! WOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!

MFS