Gettysburg Address quarter ceremony set for October 21

PennLive (opens in a new tab) (8 October 2026) reports that Gettysburg National Military Park will hold a ceremony on 21 October to release the Gettysburg Address quarter, as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary. The same day the park published its release (opens in a new tab): the event is at 11 a.m. at the Museum and Visitor Center, with the United States Mint and the Gettysburg Foundation. It is free and open to the public. The quarter is not in Notofilia’s virtual collection.

The ceremony

The speakers are Treasurer Brandon Beach, Mint Director Paul Hollis, park superintendent Stephanie Stephens, and Barbara Sardella, acting president of the foundation. A Civil War–era brass band will play, and coins will be poured into a reproduction of Abraham Lincoln’s black stovepipe hat. Afterward the Mint gives out Gettysburg Address quarters in commemorative boards. Adams County National Bank runs the exchange at the visitor center.

Obverse and reverse

PennLive describes a portrait of Lincoln on the obverse and, on the reverse, two clasped arms with the words “a new nation conceived in liberty.” The Mint’s 2026 Silver Proof Set (opens in a new tab) page describes that quarter in more detail: an obverse with Lincoln, E PLURIBUS UNUM, IN GOD WE TRUST, and the dual date 1776 ~ 2026; a reverse with two hands grasping, A NEW NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 25¢, and GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. That page is for the San Francisco set, with an S mint mark. The circulation rolls and bags are a separate offering.

Rolls, bags, and list price

PennLive writes that the quarter can be ordered as a two-coin set, a 100-coin roll, or a 100-coin bag. The MASTER_SEMIQGA (opens in a new tab) listing shows a 100-coin bag from Philadelphia (P), a 100-coin bag from Denver (D), and a two-roll set (P and D). The range on the page runs from US$42 to US$63, with a household limit of 10. In the circulating shop (opens in a new tab) the product was marked coming soon. That is a list price for the packaging, not the value of a single quarter.

PennLive calls the coin part of a 10-coin set of “key moments” and names the Mayflower Compact, the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution. The Semiquincentennial program (opens in a new tab) speaks of five circulating quarters this year, with bags and rolls for all of them. In that shop, beside Gettysburg, the Revolutionary War, Declaration, and Constitution quarters were still marked coming soon.