A Cheerio's Sac question.
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Did the Mint advertise this distribution prior to release or was it kept as secret as possible until the cereal was on the shelves?? I missed out on the oppurtunity to find one of these Dollars as much as anything else because I never heard about it and don't generally eat Cheerio's. I'm more of a Lucky Charms and Raisin Bran guy myself!!!
Absent any pre-release notice, where would you have been most likely to find a Cereal Sac??
Al H.
Absent any pre-release notice, where would you have been most likely to find a Cereal Sac??
Al H.
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I could be wrong... but I ate my way through a dozen boxes and never found a Sac!
still have the cent in original wrapper.
now to the real question, what ceral do you like??
<< <i>now to the real question, what ceral do you like?? >>
They had better SAC's inside
I got mine in a trix box called eBay.
They got a lot of trix up their sleeve.
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
Given my luck, I probably got one and spent it on a pack of Juicy Fruit.
-Randy Newman
<< <i>Did the Mint advertise this distribution prior to release or was it kept as secret as possible until the cereal was on the shelves?? I missed out on the oppurtunity to find one of these Dollars as much as anything else because I never heard about it and don't generally eat Cheerio's. I'm more of a Lucky Charms and Raisin Bran guy myself!!!
Absent any pre-release notice, where would you have been most likely to find a Cereal Sac??
Al H. >>
I believe they were advertised and everyone knew there were dollars in some of the boxes. But, what no one knew until years later is that the SACS in those cereal boxes were patterns! That's what makes them so valuable.
Sugar magnolia blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care ...
<< <i>No Promotion At All.
I remember the promotion.
The US Mint was promoting the release of the "New" Golden Sacajawea Dollar on TV commercials and General Mills was promoting the 1 cent coin in every box along with every 2,000th box (for the year 2000) as having one of the "New" golden Sacajawea Dollars in them.
The name is LEE!
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<< <i>No Promotion At All.
I remember the promotion.
The US Mint was promoting the release of the "New" Golden Sacajawea Dollar on TV commercials and General Mills was promoting the 1 cent coin in every box along with every 2,000th box (for the year 2000) as having one of the "New" golden Sacajawea Dollars in them. >>
I don't watch much television
Sugar magnolia blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care ...
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
<< <i>No Promotion At All.
A quick run down...
General Mills asked the mint if they could get some sackies for the promotion of the NEW MILLENNIUM.
The mint director said "Okay". They packaged them for General Mills and sent them out.
This particular die, was found to have too much detail unfavorable by those in power. The tool and die guys were instructed to shave off the cross feathers in the tail. The regular minting began and only a few Boldly Detailed Tail Feather designed coins flew the coup , if you will.
The promotion by General Mills was a free cent with a few lucky winners receiving the new dollar.
And that's how fast time flies.
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
All Cheerios flavors were involved in the promotion.
Of course I went to our local Jewel store on Jan. 1 and bought a box. Got the lone cent. Still have the box with the promotional info on it.
TD
If you go to your local library and search the newspaper databases, you’ll find lots of references. Here’s an excerpt from one dated March 14, 2000 from the Washington Post:
To encourage use of the golden dollar, the Mint this month launched a $40 million advertising campaign featuring the dollar- bill George Washington, who makes the pitch on television, radio and the Internet that the dollar coin is convenient to use. Actors play Washington in different scenes, but all use George's face--lifted off the greenback and brought to life by computer animation. The TV spots are aimed at urban-suburban dwellers ages 18 to 49, the group the Mint needs to accept the coin.
The ad campaign follows the stashing of golden dollars in boxes of Cheerios and in the cash registers at 3,000 Wal-Mart stores. When the Mint shipped the dollar coins to Wal-Mart, the agency also sent a promotional mailing to 90 million households in the neighborhoods around the stores.
"That lit a fuse on the first day those coins hit the market," Diehl said. "Most of the stores I heard about sold out of their first 10-day to two-week supply in a matter of a few days. Some stores were out within a few hours. . . .
"It generated literally thousands of local newspaper, radio and television stories because of the lines forming at the Wal-Mart stores. And when the Wal-Mart stores ran out, people began calling their banks," Diehl said.
By Feb. 11, two weeks after the first coins were in circulation, the Mint received 12,600 orders from banks around the country, he said.
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<< <i>No Promotion At All.
A quick run down...
General Mills asked the mint if they could get some sackies for the promotion of the NEW MILLENNIUM.
The mint director said "Okay". They packaged them for General Mills and sent them out.
This particular die, was found to have too much detail unfavorable by those in power. The tool and die guys were instructed to shave off the cross feathers in the tail. The regular minting began and only a few Boldly Detailed Tail Feather designed coins flew the coup , if you will.
The promotion by General Mills was a free cent with a few lucky winners receiving the new dollar.
And that's how fast time flies. >>
The part about the design change is wrong.
I spoke with the designer, Thomas Rogers, and he told me that late in the design process he made the decision to remove the details from the tail feathers to make them appear "white" as they do on the tail of a live eagle. In heraldry, different line patterns signify different colors. He removed the angled lines from the tail feathers to remove the appearance of color.
Whet he did not know was that somebody in the promotions department had ordered a quantity of coins to be struck to be shipped to General Mills. The coining department did so from an intermediate, or pattern as some say, pair of dies. He was unaware of this striking when he made his final design change.
When I went to a press conference held for the vending machine industry here in Chicago in October of 1999, they had several of the coins on hand. I got to examine one, made mental notes out of force of habit, and later when I got some circulating coins at Wal-Mart in January of 2000 said "Hey! they changed the tail feathers." I wrote about it in COINage magazine in that year.
Tom DeLorey
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<< <i>No Promotion At All.
A quick run down...
General Mills asked the mint if they could get some sackies for the promotion of the NEW MILLENNIUM.
The mint director said "Okay". They packaged them for General Mills and sent them out.
This particular die, was found to have too much detail unfavorable by those in power. The tool and die guys were instructed to shave off the cross feathers in the tail. The regular minting began and only a few Boldly Detailed Tail Feather designed coins flew the coup , if you will.
The promotion by General Mills was a free cent with a few lucky winners receiving the new dollar.
And that's how fast time flies. >>
The part about the design change is wrong.
I spoke with the designer, Thomas Rogers, and he told me that late in the design process he made the decision to remove the details from the tail feathers to make them appear "white" as they do on the tail of a live eagle. In heraldry, different line patterns signify different colors. He removed the angled lines from the tail feathers to remove the appearance of color.
Whet he did not know was that somebody in the promotions department had ordered a quantity of coins to be struck to be shipped to General Mills. The coining department did so from an intermediate, or pattern as some say, pair of dies. He was unaware of this striking when he made his final design change.
When I went to a press conference held for the vending machine industry here in Chicago in October of 1999, they had several of the coins on hand. I got to examine one, made mental notes out of force of habit, and later when I got some circulating coins at Wal-Mart in January of 2000 said "Hey! they changed the tail feathers." I wrote about it in COINage magazine in that year.
Tom DeLorey >>
Hey Tom, if you only knew then what we know now ... oh well!
Sugar magnolia blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care ...
I'm almost afraid to call it a pattern. We've been down this road before.
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
<< <i>I just recall they showed up on the shelves of Walmart with no promotion from the Mint or General Mills.
I could be wrong... but I ate my way through a dozen boxes and never found a Sac!
...........sure, but you are heart healthier now!!!
no more then 5,500 mintage
reported by the us mint that dies had to be altered after this short production run
a true modern rarity and toss in survival issues as most presumably were spent....makes them highly marketable
what are the pop's known...like 30?
If I were to go back in time with that knowledge...
I'm not certain i'd buy 2,000 boxes of that cereal for an even-money chance of finding one.
Why isn't the "Freakies" cereal part of my distant childhood memory? It is at about the right time. I don't understand how I missed such a thing.