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Look like regular reverse coins. Here's the detail from my Cheerios Dollar.  Keep looking. You know that a few are out there somewhere. ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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07/01/2019 8:05 pm
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Did you know:   Let say your Sac Dollar is showing the obverse in the holder, but you can see the reverse? How can you tell if it is a valuable reverse? (without opening the holder)  But some were opened and spent. So what to look for? Another view:  |
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Thanks Coop for that heads up on the obverse marker.
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07/04/2019 7:53 pm
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Yeah...I'm not seeing the strongly detailed tail feathers.
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I posted this in small dollar hunting forum the estimated mintage is 5,500 coins with highly detailed tail feathers. We know that some of the cheerios dollars though are regular sac dollars and not the highly detailed tail feathers so the population is likely lower than 5,500 to be found out there somewhere. In 2000 they minted 1.25 billion sac dollars. Just looking at those coins chances would be somewhere close to 1 in 300K coins being a highly detailed tail feathers. If you add in every other years mintage of SBA, SAC and presidential and NA dollars, we are talking about a 1 in a few million coin find. I do think it's possible to find one also, I feel certain some slipped into circulation from kids spending them, but I also feel it's highly, highly unlikely to find one with a life time of searching unless extremely lucky. It will be somewhere around 1 coin every couple thousand circulated boxes searched as far as box distribution would go. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from looking, if you don't look you won't find it. Just being real about the numbers here and how hard of a hunt it really is. |
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/1/ Unless it's already certified or you find it in the original package, it's not a Cheerios dollar (there is a long thread @ the PCGS board about this) /2/ There are several known coins with the proof reverse - whether they were Cheerios take out of the packaging and circulated before being found or whether another proof reverse die was used for circulation strikes isn't know. If you find a proof reverse in circulation it would be one of these. As Big said above, the known odds are 5500/1250000000 or 1:227272 or about your chances of being killed by an asteroid ( https://www.wired.com/2013/02/asteroid-odds/)-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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darn the asteroid...give me the coin hunt...order me some dollar rolls.
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The obv marker is good to know, but it is NOT definitive. Other obverses also come with similar marks. If you have a dollar still in the Cheerios package it is a very good indicator it has the prototype rev, but for a coin found in the wild it is NOT a good indicator, you must check the tail feathers. One feature seldom mentioned is that the central vein on center tail feather is RAISED on the prototype rev and incuse on the production coins.
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