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Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Exonumia - Medals Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
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Lot of six brilliant uncirculated Sunny Jim medals from circa 1935. Obv.: "Force" / Bring / Back Prosperity / With / Sunny Jim; rev.: Good Luck / Forget That Times / Are Tough and Grim, / Cheer Up and Smile / With Sunny Jim / Good Health. Br., rd., 32 mm. "Force" was the first successful wheat flake breakfast cereal. First produced in 1901 in Buffalo, New York, it utilized a cartoon character named "Sunny Jim." Minnie Hanff invented Jimmy Dumps in 1901. The morose Mr. Dumps transformed into Sunny Jim after eating the "Force" cereal. Advertising appeared in magazines, on billboards and trolley cars. This medal dates to the Depression with its motto "Bring Back Prosperity."


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