Commemorative Trump dollars sell out in hours

CNN en Español reports that the commemorative $1 coins with President Donald Trump’s portrait went on sale Wednesday, 2 September at noon Eastern time in the U.S. Mint online store and, by about 3 p.m., already showed as unavailable: “This item can be ordered now, but is currently unavailable,” the Mint notice read.

What sold, and at what price

The Mint offered two presentations, both circulation-quality and struck in Philadelphia (mint mark P):

• 25-coin roll: $61.
• 100-coin bag: $154.50.

For the first 24 hours each product was limited to two units per household, and demand sent buyers into a virtual waiting room with estimated waits of about an hour.

This is the same dollar whose first batch we already covered: obverse with Trump’s portrait, LIBERTY, IN GOD WE TRUST, and the dual date 1776 ~ 2026; reverse with the presidential seal and the number 250 on the shield. Despite the golden color, the alloy is manganese brass —it contains no gold.

The July 4 privy mark

A detail collectors will watch: 250,000 pieces were struck on 4 July 2026 and carry a «July 4» privy mark instead of a mint mark. The Mint mixed them at random into rolls and bags, so opening a roll is a small numismatic lottery; those coins are likely to trade above the rest on the secondary market.

A living president on the coin

Congress authorized the issue in the Semiquincentennial program under the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act, which carves out an exception to the rule that bars living presidents from circulating coinage. The portrait is on the obverse, as the statute requires. The only cited precedent is the 1926 Sesquicentennial half dollar with Calvin Coolidge.

Source: CNN en Español (opens in a new tab); prices, household limits, and the “July 4” mark from the U.S. Mint release (opens in a new tab).