The Mint opens the Gettysburg Address quarter rolls

On 13 November 2026, Darrin Lee Unser (opens in a new tab) wrote in CoinNews that the United States Mint put rolls and bags of the 1776 ~ 2026 Gettysburg Address quarter on sale that day at noon Eastern. The quarter is not in Notofilia’s virtual collection. The note of 9 October already recorded the 21 October ceremony and a list-price band of US$42 to US$63 that the product page did not split by item.

What the Mint said on the 6th

The Mint’s release (opens in a new tab), dated Washington, 6 November 2026, and published by GlobeNewswire, opens orders for two-roll sets and 100-coin bags on 13 November at noon Eastern. The quarter, it says, entered circulation on 19 October. Because of demand, orders are limited to two units of each option. The press contact is Sharon McPike, 202-354-7222.

The three options, with the price and the code the release prints:

• Bag of 100, Philadelphia, US$63, code 26SQBJ.
• Bag of 100, Denver, US$63, code 26SQBK.
• Two-roll set, 80 circulating-quality quarters from Philadelphia and Denver, US$56, code 26SQRJ.

That is a list price for the packaging, not the value of a loose quarter.

The listing

The MASTER_SEMIQGA (opens in a new tab) page shows a range of US$56 to US$63, no mintage limit, no product limit, and a household limit of two. It does not print 2 p.m. on 16 November. CoinNews writes that the initial limit of two per option stays until 2 p.m. Eastern on 16 November, and that the earlier 2026 releases suggest the product may be gone before that hour. This note did not open the cart on 14 November, and it does not say whether the three options were still on sale.

Obverse and reverse

The 6 November release describes the obverse: Abraham Lincoln, the burden of war on his face, E PLURIBUS UNUM, IN GOD WE TRUST, and the dual date 1776 ~ 2026. The reverse: two hands grasping, A NEW NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 25¢, and GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. The release does not name the artists.

CoinNews adds that Justin Kunz, of the Artistic Infusion Program, designed the obverse and that Don Everhart, a former Mint medallic artist, sculpted it. Beth Zaiken designed the reverse and Craig Campbell, a Mint medallic artist, sculpted it. It also writes that the portrait had already appeared on the 2009 Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial silver dollar, and that the hands, in another composition, are on the 2024 Harriet Tubman silver dollar. This note did not open those pages.

On the measurements, CoinNews and the listing agree: quarter, 8.33% nickel, balance copper, 5.670 g, 0.955 inches (24.26 mm), a reeded edge, Philadelphia mint mark P and Denver D, and no privy mark. CoinNews splits the set into 40 and 40. The release says 80 and does not divide that figure.

The four earlier designs

CoinNews dates the rolls and bags as follows: Mayflower Compact, 5 February; Revolutionary War, 27 March; Declaration of Independence, 16 June; Constitution, 26 August; Gettysburg, this release. It cites the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, Public Law 116-330. This note does not open the statute.

The table CoinNews published on 11 November (opens in a new tab), closed on 8 November, is the count the 13 November note summarizes. Two-roll sets: Mayflower 10,337, Revolutionary War 10,904, Declaration 10,387, Constitution 10,390. Bags of 100: Mayflower 6,184 (P) and 6,161 (D); Revolutionary War 9,194 (P) and 6,198 (D); Declaration 6,191 (P) and 6,192 (D); Constitution 6,191 (P) and 6,184 (D). The 13 November note rounds most bags to about 6,200 and singles out the Philadelphia Revolutionary War bag, at 9,194. The Constitution Denver bag is the cell that moved that week, from 6,176 to 6,184. Those are Mint sales as CoinNews compiles them, not a mintage and not a Notofilia count. This note did not open the Mint’s CSV.

In that same 11 November table, the 2026 proof set stands at 375,549, the silver proof set at 267,016 (nine more than 267,007), and the uncirculated Mint Set at 298,650, unchanged that week. The 13 November note says the latter two had been off sale for some time, with sales near their product limits. It does not print those limits.

The photograph

The picture is the Bliss copy of the Gettysburg Address, in Lincoln’s hand, from the Smithsonian via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab), in the public domain. It is not the 2026 quarter, it is not the 21 October ceremony, and it is not a piece in the collection. The only 1776–2026 coin in the case is the Trump dollar, a different denomination. In the collection’s numismatics this quarter has no record.