The United States Mint begins accepting pre orders for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ Commemorative Coin Program on June 4, 2026, at noon Eastern. Authorized by Public Law 118 143, the program offers three denominations, a five dollar gold coin, a silver dollar, and a clad half dollar, each available in proof and uncirculated finishes, with a three coin proof set rounding out the lineup. Orders are expected to ship in late July, with the Mint listing an expected shipping date of July 15.
The last time the World Cup was played on American soil, in 1994, the Mint marked the occasion with exactly this trio: a half dollar, a silver dollar, and a five dollar gold coin. That program moved roughly 1.5 million units and remains one of the better selling commemorative efforts of the 1990s. In 2026 the tournament returns to North America, this time shared among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and the Mint has come back with the same three denominations, a modernized design language, and a different cause attached to the proceeds.
The lineup
Seven product options carry the program, split between the West Point Mint for gold and the Philadelphia Mint for silver and clad. The single coin offerings range from a sixty one dollar uncirculated half dollar to a gold coin priced north of thirteen hundred. The two gold options and the three coin proof set float with the Mint’s pricing grid for numismatic and commemorative gold, so their figures move with the metal; the silver and half dollar prices are fixed.
| Code | Product | Mint | Intro price | Regular price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26CA | Proof Five Dollar Gold Coin | West Point (W) | Grid less $5 (currently $1,338.25) | Per grid |
| 26CB | Uncirculated Five Dollar Gold Coin | West Point (W) | Grid less $5 (currently $1,328.25) | Per grid |
| 26CC | Proof Silver Dollar | Philadelphia (P) | $174.00 | $179.00 |
| 26CD | Uncirculated Silver Dollar | Philadelphia (P) | $169.00 | $174.00 |
| 26CE | Proof Half Dollar | Philadelphia (P) | $64.00 | $69.00 |
| 26CF | Uncirculated Half Dollar | Philadelphia (P) | $61.00 | $66.00 |
| 26CG | Three Coin Proof Set | Multi (P)(W) | — | $1,581.25 (per grid) |
The three coin proof set is the program’s centerpiece, gathering one of each proof denomination in a single presentation case with a certificate of authenticity. It carries its own product limit of 10,000 sets.
The designs
All three coins share a single reverse, and it is the detail that ties the set together. Three hands lift the FIFA World Cup Trophy against a stylized field of stars and stripes, carrying the inscriptions UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, E PLURIBUS UNUM, and each coin’s denomination. The obverses are where the coins each make their own case.
The gold five dollar obverse turns the globe into a soccer ball, rotated to center North America and the three host nations, ringed by the motto FOOTBALL UNITES THE WORLD alongside LIBERTY, the date, and IN GOD WE TRUST. The silver dollar puts a player mid move, working the ball through a handling technique, with the FIFA Unity logo set behind. The half dollar is the most kinetic of the three, a player caught in a bicycle kick against the stacked “26” of the official World Cup 2026 emblem.
There is a quiet line of continuity worth noting. The 1994 gold coin’s obverse carried an image of the World Cup Trophy itself; in 2026 that same trophy reappears, lifted by three hands, as the shared reverse across the entire program. Three decades on, the prize is still the thing the coins want you to look at.
Pricing window and the first day rush
Introductory pricing on the single coin options runs until July 6, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. Eastern, after which the regular figures take effect. The early discount is modest, five dollars per single coin, but the more consequential rule is the household limit. For the first 24 hours of sales, buyers are capped at one each of the gold options and the three coin proof set, a measure aimed squarely at keeping the program’s tightest pieces out of the hands of bulk flippers on day one.
Those limits matter because the gold is genuinely finite. The program’s mintage ceilings are set at 100,000 gold coins, 500,000 silver dollars, and 750,000 half dollars across all finishes, generous at the clad end, considerably less so for the gold, where collectors building proof and uncirculated pairs are drawing from the smallest pool.
Where the money goes
Every coin sold carries a surcharge: $35 on each gold coin, $10 on each silver dollar, and $5 on each half dollar, payable to FWC2026 US, Inc. FIFA has pledged to direct 100% of those surcharges to military family youth soccer initiatives, funneling collector dollars toward programs for service members’ children.
That destination is the sharpest break from the 1994 precedent. The gold surcharge is unchanged from three decades ago, still $35 a coin, but the silver and half dollar surcharges have climbed, from $7 to $10 on the dollar, and from a single dollar to five on the half. Back then the money flowed to the tournament’s organizing committee, with a tenth carved out for scholastic scholarships through the U.S. Soccer Federation Foundation. This time the cause is narrower and more clearly stated, and it sits at the front of the Mint’s pitch rather than the fine print.
What it means
For collectors building the modern commemorative set, the FIFA World Cup 2026 program is a necessary addition and a neat bookend to the 1994 issue that preceded it. For everyone else, soccer fans, World Cup tourists, parents buying a keepsake of a tournament their kids will remember, it is an accessible entry point that starts at sixty one dollars and tops out in gold. The Mint has made the same bet it made in 1994: that a global event landing on home soil is worth striking in metal, and that enough people will want a piece of it. The first 24 hours will say how that bet is going.
