Sacagawea Dollar

The Cheerios Sacagawea was essentially a pattern coin and it has a slighty different design(ribbed tail feathers vs smooth) from Sacagaweas minted for commerce. It was recently discovered that not all of the Sackies used in the Cheerios promotion were of the pattern type, many of them could very well have been normal coins. Because of that, potential population figures have been thrown out the window and it is really a guess at this point as to how many actually exist. Only about a dozen have been discovered and as far as I know, none have been reported to have been found in circulation. I would imagine that there are still some in the Cheerios packaging sitting at the bottom of someone's junk drawer were the coin was placed 11 years ago after a box of empty cereal. If you were lucky enough to find the proverbial needle in a hay field(a stack is much too small for this task), then it would be worth around $5000.
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I have some information on the 2000p Cheerios Sacagawea dollar. General Mills and the us mint agreed to promote sacagawea and the Lincoln Penny 1million pennys were stamped and shipped out in 1million boxes of cheerios. 5500 Sacagaweas were sent out among the
1million boxes. At the Philadelphia mint acording to the article I read 126 sacagaweas were stamped with a different planchet. They were over looked and went out with the 5500. 5374 of the dollars had the
tail feathers with the visible veins in them. The 126 have just a
bold tail feather no veins. These are the ones that I have seen that
have sold for as much as 34,000 dollars mint condition (2009 auction)
23,000 dollars (2007 auction) According to the article these are the ones that are in high demand. I am in possesion of one of these coins although it is not in mint

At least one piece with the pattern reverse has been recovered from circulation.



Special finish not special tarnish.