The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Silver Medal on Thursday, September 3, 2026, at noon Eastern. Priced at $164 and struck from one troy ounce of 99.9% silver, the medal is listed as item S830 and ships encapsulated in a single presentation case with a Certificate of Authenticity.
It is the third of four presidential silver medals scheduled for 2026, following Woodrow Wilson in February and Warren G. Harding in May, with Herbert Hoover still to come. What lifts the Coolidge entry above its place in the queue is the design it reproduces. The obverse and reverse both come from a 1928 medal by John Ray Sinnock, the engraver Coolidge himself had appointed three years earlier, and whose best known work for the Mint was still two decades away.
The 1928 Sinnock design
The obverse carries a bust of the President and the legend CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. The reverse, ringed by a stylized laurel wreath, shows a seated female figure holding fasces, a symbol of authority, with a heraldic eagle atop the shield of the United States on one side and a cornucopia on the other. The New-York Historical Society, which catalogues an example of the original struck medal, identifies the seated figure as Columbia.
Three inscriptions sit inside that wreath: “INAUGURATED”, then “AUG·3·1923 AND MAR·4·1925″, and finally the date 1928 in the exergue. Sinnock signed both sides.
The wreath is decoration. Everything inside it is doing work, and the dates are the reason the medal is worth a second look.
Two inauguration dates on one reverse
Most presidential medals record a single beginning. Coolidge’s records two, because his presidency had two starting points and neither one alone tells the story.
The first date is the one collectors tend to know. Warren Harding died in San Francisco on the evening of August 2, 1923. Coolidge was at the family homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, a house with neither electricity nor a telephone, when a messenger brought the news. At 2:47 on the morning of August 3, in the parlor, by the light of a kerosene lamp and with his hand on the family Bible, he took the oath from his father, a Vermont notary public and justice of the peace. He is the only president ever sworn in by his own father. Lawyers in Washington were uneasy about whether a state official could administer a federal oath, so Coolidge quietly repeated it later that month before a District of Columbia justice, and the country was not told for years.
The second date is the ordinary one, and Coolidge had to earn it. Having won the 1924 election in his own right, he was inaugurated again on March 4, 1925, this time by Chief Justice William Howard Taft, the first former president to swear in a successor, before a national radio audience. The medal gives both dates equal billing, which is the most honest thing it could have done. The Coolidge presidency began in a farmhouse and was ratified on a platform.
Then there is the third number. The medal is dated 1928, and by the time that date was cut, Coolidge had already ended his own political career. On August 2, 1927, at his summer quarters in the Black Hills of South Dakota, he handed reporters strips of paper reading that he did not choose to run for president in 1928. He offered no elaboration then and very little afterwards. The medal that records his two beginnings is dated to the year of his exit.
John Ray Sinnock and the Coolidge portrait
John Ray Sinnock succeeded George T. Morgan as Chief Engraver of the United States Mint in 1925, appointed during Coolidge’s own administration, the eighth man to hold the post.
One of his first significant commissions in the role involved the new President himself. Sinnock modeled the 1926 Sesquicentennial of American Independence half dollar, which paired Coolidge’s portrait with Washington’s and made Coolidge the first living president to appear on a United States coin, a decision that drew comment at the time and has drawn more since. Two years later he produced the presidential medal the Mint is now reissuing in silver.
Sinnock held the engraver’s post until his death in 1947, long enough to design the Roosevelt dime and to complete the models for the Franklin half dollar. Collectors who know his initials from the base of Roosevelt’s neck are looking at the same hand that shaped this medal twenty years earlier.
There is a neat symmetry in the timing. Sinnock’s Coolidge portrait first reached the public on a coin struck for the 150th anniversary of American independence. It returns now, on a silver medal, in the year of the 250th.
Calvin Coolidge Presidential Silver Medal specifications
| Specification | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Silver Medal |
|---|---|
| Item number | S830 |
| Composition | 99.9% silver |
| Weight | 1.000 troy ounce |
| Diameter | 1.598 inches |
| Finish | Matte |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint and mint mark | N/A |
| Privy mark | None |
| Designer, obverse and reverse | John Ray Sinnock |
| Price | $164.00 |
| On sale | September 3, 2026, at noon ET |
| Mintage limit | None |
| Product limit | None |
| Household order limit | None |
How to order the Coolidge silver medal from the US Mint
The Mint has published no mintage limit, no product limit and no household order limit for the medal, which is standard for the series and means the September 3 opening is unlikely to be a scramble. Collectors who want the reminder can register for a Remind Me alert on the product page, and the Presidential Silver Medal Subscription will deliver each new release automatically as it is issued.
Price is the one thing that has moved. The 2025 issues in the series sold at $90 each. The four 2026 medals were set at $164, and Coin World reported in February that previously released presidential silver medals were being repriced to the same level. The jump reflects the silver market rather than anything about the medals themselves, but it does change the arithmetic for anyone assembling the full presidential run in one go.
What it means for the Presidential Silver Medal set
The Presidential Silver Medal series launched in 2018 and has issued four medals a year since 2019, working steadily forward through the presidencies. On that schedule it is neither scarce nor dramatic, and the Coolidge medal will not be the piece that makes a collection.
What it will be is a well struck silver reduction of a design most collectors have only ever seen in bronze, by an engraver whose later work sits in every American coin jar. For anyone building the set, that is reason enough. For everyone else, the Coolidge reverse is a rare case of a medal telling you something true about the man on the other side of it: two inaugurations, one of them by kerosene light, and a date that already knew he was leaving.
Frequently asked questions
When does the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Silver Medal go on sale?
Sales open on Thursday, September 3, 2026, at noon Eastern, on the US Mint’s website. The medal is listed as item S830.
How much does the Coolidge silver medal cost?
$164.00. That is the 2026 price across the Presidential Silver Medal series, up from $90 for the 2025 issues.
Is there a mintage limit on the Coolidge medal?
No. The US Mint has published no mintage limit, no product limit and no household order limit.
Who designed the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Silver Medal?
John Ray Sinnock, Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1925 until his death in 1947, designed both sides. The 2026 medal reproduces the presidential medal he produced for Coolidge in 1928.
What is the silver content of the medal?
One troy ounce of 99.9% silver, 1.598 inches in diameter, struck with a matte finish and a plain edge.
