The Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato has done something the Italian state mint rarely does: it has handed a private carmaker the obverse of a coin. On June 4, 2026, the IPZS officially issues two Ferrari coins under its Italian Excellence Series, a single one-ounce gold 100 euro and a three-coin silver triptych of 6 euro pieces, each carrying the marque’s racing machinery on the front and the Prancing Horse on the back.
It is a collaboration with timing, not just branding. The headline gold coin honors a win that took more than half a century to arrive, and the silver set turns the engine bay of three of Maranello’s most talked-about cars into numismatic portraits.
The gold coin and a 53-year wait
The 100 euro gold piece puts the Ferrari 499P, the Le Mans Hypercar, in the centre of its obverse, and the inscription leaves no doubt about why. Arched beneath the car, the legend reads CAMPIONE DEL MONDO ENDURANCE 2025: Endurance World Champion. In November 2025, after eight hours of racing at the season finale in Bahrain, Ferrari took the FIA World Endurance Championship constructors’ title back to Maranello for the first time in 53 years. The drivers’ crown went the same way, claimed by the number 51 499P of Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi.
The coin frames that triumph in the Mint of Rome’s usual furniture, REPUBBLICA ITALIANA arched across the top, the “R” mintmark to the left, the 100 EURO value at centre and the 2026 year of issue to the right, with engraver Valerio De Seta’s “Mod.V. DE SETA” signature below. Struck in 999.9 gold to one ounce, 28 millimetres across with a SU/Reverse Proof finish and FERRARI lettering on the edge, it carries a €4,450 issue price.
The mintage is where the detail-minded collector will smile: just 499 pieces. For a coin built around the 499P, the number reads less like a production cap than a quiet signature.
The silver triptych: three cars, one engine bloodline
The 6 euro silver set works differently. Rather than three views of one car, it gives three cars one coin apiece, each struck in an ounce of 999 silver at 37.2 millimetres, the gold’s larger sibling in size if not in metal. Obverse one is again the 499P. Obverse two is the F80, Ferrari’s current flagship hypercar. Obverse three is the 296 Speciale, the track-sharpened special version of the 296.
The grouping is not arbitrary, and that is the quietly clever part. The F80’s 1,200-cv hybrid powertrain is built around a V6 derived from the very engine that powers the Le Mans winning 499P. The 296 Speciale, in turn, borrows hardware straight from the F80, titanium connecting rods among them, with its block lightened by the same process used to prepare the 499P’s race engine. Three coins, three cars, one bloodline running through all of them. The triptych is essentially a portrait of an engine family told through the machines it powers.
Each silver obverse carries the same civic framing as the gold, REPUBBLICA ITALIANA above, the 6 EURO value and 2026 date below, the Rome mintmark and the De Seta signature, and all three share the gold coin’s edge lettering and SU/Reverse Proof finish. The set is capped at 5,000 and priced at €350, with the three coins’ denominations totalling the 18 euro figure listed on the issue sheet.
A common reverse, and a single idea
Both products share one reverse: the iconic Prancing Horse, the badge the IPZS describes simply as the symbol of a manufacturer celebrated as an example of Italian excellence. It is the through-line of the whole programme. The obverses change with the car; the horse does not.
That single shared reverse is also the clearest statement of what the series is trying to do. The Italian Excellence Series exists to put national industry on national coinage, and few badges carry that argument as economically as Ferrari’s does.
Availability
Both coins went to presale on the IPZS shop on April 9, 2026, and both were already showing as not available online ahead of the June 4 official issue date. The mint’s standard policy applies: a coin that runs out in presale can still be pursued on the day of official issue, when a further quantity is released both online and at the Spazio Verdi sales point in Rome.
For collectors, the calculus is familiar. Five thousand silver sets and 499 gold coins is a tight ceiling for an object that sits at the intersection of two collecting worlds, numismatics and Ferrari, each of which can absorb a mintage like this on its own. The Prancing Horse has crossed onto legal tender, and the people who chase coins and the people who chase Maranello are now, briefly, after the same thing.
