The U.S. Mint’s privy marks in 2026

World Numismatic News (opens in a new tab) (Numisman, 8 October 2026, updated that day) sorts the 2026 United States Mint coins that carry a privy mark. The note warns that the dates and caps are the Mint’s announcements as of that day, and that a cap is not a final mintage. These coins are not in Notofilia’s virtual collection.

Four families

The guide separates four groups. The Liberty Bell with 250 set vertically: over the gear on the American Innovation dollars, and alone on other collector issues. The JULY 4th legend, on two lines. The date 9-11-01, ringed by ALWAYS REMEMBER or by NEVER FORGET. And TEAM USA on a proof Silver Eagle the Mint did not offer for direct sale.

A mint mark says where a coin was struck. A privy mark says something else: an anniversary, a change in standard, or whom the piece was made for. In 2026 many coins carry both. The guide recalls the device before the name — arrows beside the date when silver weights changed, the American Innovation dollar’s gear since 2019, the 2020 V75 — and puts the weight of the year on those four families.

The limits it summarizes

• American Innovation. All four 2026 designs, in Philadelphia (P) and Denver (D) rolls and bags. The San Francisco reverse-proof set, announced for 13 October, with a cap of 99,792. The standard proof set, on sale since 6 October, contains neither those dollars nor privy-marked coins.
• Bell 250 on precious metal. West Point (W) proof Silver Eagle, cap 500,000. Enhanced uncirculated, from 21 July, cap 125,000. Proof Gold Eagles in four sizes, from 5 March, with caps of 25,000 (1 oz), 18,500 (1/2 oz), 21,000 (1/4 oz), and 29,000 (1/10 oz), including coins in four-coin sets. The 1 oz enhanced uncirculated, from 28 May, cap 7,500. Proof Gold Buffalo, from 7 May, product cap 15,000: the mark sits where the W usually goes and the mint mark moves up into the headdress. Uncirculated Palladium Eagle, from 3 September, cap 5,000.
• Morgan and Peace, and Best of the Mint. Philadelphia reverse proofs on 9 July; West Point enhanced uncirculated on 25 August; Diamond Field set announced for 12 November. The five 24-karat Best of the Mint gold coins keep their original dates and use the bell to mark the striking as 2026.
• JULY 4th. 250,000 Declaration of Independence quarters, Philadelphia, no mint mark, mixed at random into bank shipments. 250 2.5-ounce silver quarters, edge-numbered 1 to 250, for an auction with no date yet. 250,000 dollars with Trump’s portrait, Philadelphia, no mint mark, interspersed from 2 September in 25-coin rolls and 100-coin bags. The guide adds that NGC offered a bounty for the first coin submitted for grading and that PCGS offered US$5,000 for its own first find of the quarter.
• 9-11-01. ALWAYS REMEMBER at West Point, W mint mark: 2,983 presented on 21 August to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, and another 250,000 sent toward Federal Reserve Banks from 14 September. The guide adds those to 252,983 and says the 2,983 are not established as a separate design or finish. NEVER FORGET at Philadelphia, P mint mark, with a preorder from 10 to 25 September and no published cap; as of 8 October the page was marked sold out. The 10 September note already recorded that window.
• TEAM USA. The guide, citing GreatCollections, speaks of 403 Philadelphia proof Silver Eagles, P mint mark: 400 for the Milano Cortina athletes presented at the White House on 6 August, and 3 retained by the Mint. There was no direct sale.

Outside the mark

The guide leaves these 2026 issues outside the privy mark and the dual date: the bullion Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Palladium Eagles, and the bullion Gold Buffalo. Also outside it: the Native American dollar, the Philadelphia proof Silver Eagle in the Congratulations Set, the ordinary Philadelphia and Denver Enduring Liberty halves, the Declaration quarters without JULY 4th, and the Trump dollars without that legend. The mark, it writes, names the year or the day. Scarcity comes from the path each coin took: circulation, a Mint sale, a presentation, or an auction.