The third of this year’s five Semiquincentennial quarters reaches collectors in quantity this week. The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for two roll sets and 100 coin bags of the 2026 Declaration of Independence quarter on June 16 at noon Eastern, putting the Liberty Bell design within reach of anyone who wants the coin by the roll rather than one at a time from circulation.
It is a circulating quality release rather than a proof or burnished issue, which is the point. These are the same coins that will turn up in pocket change across the country this year, offered in collector friendly formats for those who would rather not wait for the lucky find.
The Design
The obverse belongs to Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the nation’s third president, surrounded by the inscriptions E PLURIBUS UNUM, IN GOD WE TRUST, and the dual date 1776 ~ 2026 that anchors the whole Semiquincentennial program.
The reverse is where the story lives. It depicts the Liberty Bell mid ring, the bell that hung in the Pennsylvania State House, Independence Hall, in the founding era. The Mint is careful not to overclaim: it is unclear whether the bell actually rang out in July 1776, but it was the instrument that gathered people to hear an announcement or a declaration read aloud. The famous crack is rendered plainly, and the Mint reads it as more than a defect, the fragility of the bell standing in for the fragility of a young nation at its founding. The reverse carries the inscriptions THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, QUARTER DOLLAR, LIBERTY, and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
What’s on Offer
Three products go on sale, all in circulating quality:
- A 100 coin bag struck in Philadelphia, priced at $63 (product code 26SQBE).
- A 100 coin bag struck in Denver, priced at $63 (product code 26SQBF).
- A two roll set of 80 coins, one roll each from Philadelphia and Denver, priced at $56 (product code 26SQRE).
There is no mintage limit and no product limit on the release, but the household order limit is set at two. For collectors who want both mint marks in a single tidy purchase, the two roll set is the obvious entry point; the single mint bags suit those building rolls by facility or laying in a quantity of one mark.
Where It Fits
For one year only, the Mint is marking 250 years of American independence with a run of special coins and medals and design changes across most of its circulating coinage. The quarter program is the centerpiece of that effort: five new reverses across 2026, of which the Declaration of Independence design is the third. Pairing Jefferson with the Liberty Bell makes this the most literal of the five, the document’s author on one side, the sound that called people to hear it on the other.
For series collectors, the rolls and bags are a straightforward way to secure pristine examples of the third design in both mint marks before they disperse into change. For everyone else, it is a chance to own a clean, well struck record of how the Mint chose to tell the founding story in the year the country turned 250, a quarter whose cracked bell says as much about endurance as it does about beginnings.
