(If you have a Heritage account, you can view that coin’s details here.) On August 10 of this year, a Cheerios dollar was also auctioned by Heritage Auction Galleries for $11,500 in the grade PCGS MS-67. In that article, they also discuss how a collector on eBay paid $9,999.99 for a 2000-P Sacagawea (Cheerios dollar) graded PCGS MS-66. The Mint quote was provided in a Coin World article from their Novemissue. Recessing the center tail feather gives the illusion of a 13th feather, but that was not the intent.” How much are the Sacagawea Cheerios dollars really worth? Prior to manufacturing the coins for release to the Federal Reserve in 2000, the feather detail was softened and the center tail feather was recessed to solve a die manufacturing issue.
“5,500 Golden Dollars of a ‘high detail’ feather variety (12 tail feathers) were manufactured and shipped to General Mills as part of the Golden Dollar promotion in October 1999, under a detailed arrangement that they not be released until January 2000. Mint released June 17, 2007, by spokeswoman Joyce Harris, What’s the official story? According to the statement from the U.S. Unlike the new circulating Sacagawea coins that would go to banks and the public, the Cheerios Sacagawea dollars had the same reverse design as those earlier proof, 22-karate space coins.Īnd because only 5,500 Cheerios dollars were made, they’re very rare and valuable – unlike the over one billion other circulating Sacagawea’s produced in 2000. The Mint later changed – ever so slightly – the design for the circulating coins. In fact, so were the 5,500 Sacagawea dollars. General Mills had to have the coins before 2000 so they could have enough time to package them within the various Cheerios boxes and get them onto shelves by January.Īnd here’s where it gets interesting. The early release of the golden dollars helped create tremendous buzz, but it also forced the Mint to move quick. (The coins weren’t released to Federal Reserve Banks until late January.) Why the Sacagawea Cheerios dollars are treasures – different and valued During January of 2000, the ONLY place to get a brand new golden dollar was in a Cheerios box.
Like the space Sacagawea’s, the cereal boxes were on grocery shelves before any of the new coins made it into circulation. Placing new millennium pennies and 5,500 Sacagawea dollars within 10 million Cheerios boxes was a huge promotional campaign. The special proof coins were sent up on Space Shuttle Columbia in the middle of 1999 – many months before the coins were introduced into circulation.īut perhaps more inspired, was the Mint’s partnership with General Mills. The Sacagawea space coins and Cheerios dollarsīlasting 12 uniquely made 22-karat gold Sacagawea’s coins into space was certainly an interesting promotional adventure. Mint spent $53,000,000 that year on marketing and advertising just to get your attention. You likely remember the introduction of the Sacagawea golden dollars back in 2000. These Cheerios dollars are now being sold for several thousand dollars each. You were given one shot at a very special Sacagawea golden coin.
Buying a box of Cheerios® in January of 2000 bought you more than a good breakfast.
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