Best of the Mint 1804 Silver Dollar Gold Coin Set (26BM4)

The Best of the Mint 1804 Silver Dollar Gold Coin and Silver Medal Set is the fourth of five sets the US Mint is issuing in 2026 for the country's 250th anniversary. Product code: 26BM4. The set pairs a one-ounce .9999 fine gold proof re-creation of the 1804 Draped Bust dollar with a one-ounce .999 fine silver companion medal, and the gold piece carries the same Liberty Bell 250 privy mark as the rest of the semiquincentennial program. The Mint has it scheduled for August 27, 2026, at 12 noon Eastern, with a household order limit of one. As of July 30, 2026, there is no posted price and no mintage figure.

What's in the 1804 Silver Dollar Gold Coin Set

The gold coin is a one-ounce .9999 fine proof. The design is Robert Scot's, taken from the original Draped Bust dollar: Liberty facing right under LIBERTY with the 1804 date below, seven stars to her left and six to her right, and on the reverse the heraldic eagle holding thirteen arrows and an olive branch, E PLURIBUS UNUM on a ribbon overhead. The Mint added exactly one thing, the privy mark, the numerals 250 stacked on a Liberty Bell.

The silver medal is a new design rather than a reissue. Joseph V. Noorigian designed and sculpted it: a young Liberty with flowing, ribbon-like hair on the obverse, dated 2026 with the same seven-and-six star arrangement, and on the reverse a sun with rays over an eagle in flight above the Earth. Coin World's coverage has the full design detail.

The gold coin is a 2026 strike that borrows the 1804 date and design. It is not one of the fifteen original 1804 dollars.

Where the 26BM4 release date stands

The Mint's product page lists August 27, 2026, at 12 noon Eastern. Price and mintage were still unposted as of late July.

The 2026 Best of the Mint series has run roughly monthly. The Mercury dime set opened June 4, the Standing Liberty quarter set followed on July 10, and the Walking Liberty half dollar set opens August 6, each at noon Eastern. The 1804 dollar set lands three weeks after the half dollar. A fifth set, the 1907 Saint-Gaudens High Relief $20 gold coin, also a one-ounce piece, closes the series on September 24.

The order rules have been consistent: a household limit of one at launch. The quarter set lifted its limit the following Monday at noon.

How the Mint prices gold products

There is no price on the 26BM4 page, and guessing one is pointless because the Mint does not set gold prices in advance. Gold products are priced from a grid tied to the weekly average of the gold spot price, and they get repriced when that average crosses into a new tier.

The Mercury dime set is the live example. It opened at $810 on June 4. On July 1, the Mint moved it to $780 and then $765 under that weekly schedule after gold's average slid. The 1804 set holds a full ounce of gold, up from the dime's tenth-ounce, the quarter's quarter-ounce, and the half dollar's half-ounce. Its price will land wherever the grid sits the week it goes on sale, plus the premium the Mint builds into proof products.

The coin it re-creates

The original 1804 dollar gets called the King of American Coins, and the auction record backs the nickname. Fifteen exist. None were struck in 1804. The first eight, the Class I originals, were made around 1834 when the State Department ordered complete proof coin sets as diplomatic gifts, and the Mint used the 1804 date because its books showed that as the last year of silver dollar coinage. Two of those sets went to the Sultan of Muscat and the King of Siam. Restrikes came later: one Class II piece, now in the Smithsonian, and six Class III examples from the late 1850s.

The Sultan of Muscat example, the finest known, sold for $7.68 million at Stack's Bowers in August 2021. The same coin had set the previous record, $4.14 million, back in 1999. None of that history prices a modern reissue; what the 2026 coin offers is Scot's design struck in gold, at a size the original never came in.

What drop day is actually like

I was in the Mint's queue at noon Eastern for the Liberty Bell release on July 16, and it moved faster than the horror stories suggest. My phone got routed to a waiting room before the start. My computer joined the queue when I refreshed at noon and was through in about a minute, and checkout itself was ordinary. Hectic feeling, straightforward process.

That release was capped at 2,026 units per piece and sold out the same day. The Best of the Mint sets have run differently: the dime and quarter sets were each capped at 30,000, and the dime set sold 28,933 in its opening stretch, went unavailable, then came back on sale in July at a lower price. A household limit and a noon opening do not automatically mean a coin you cannot get.

The practical prep is short: have a usmint.gov account with saved payment before launch day, get in the queue at noon, and do not refresh the waiting room once you are in it.

If the set sells out

A Mint sellout is the start of the secondary market, not the end of availability. Ownership changes hands from there, a cycle we walked through in what happens when a US Mint coin sells out. On Collect Pure, that trading happens on live order books, where buyers post bids and sellers post asks, the way the sold-out Liberty Bell pieces already do. Every item is verified in Pure's own facility before a trade settles.

FAQ

What is the mintage limit for the 1804 dollar set?

The US Mint has not announced a mintage limit for the 1804 dollar set (26BM4) as of late July 2026. The first two sets in the series were each capped at 30,000, but limits are set per product.

What is the household order limit for the 26BM4 set?

The US Mint lists a household order limit of one for the 1804 dollar set. Earlier sets in the series launched with the same limit and lifted it soon after; the Standing Liberty quarter set's limit came off three days after launch.

Is the gold coin a real 1804 dollar?

The gold coin in the Best of the Mint set is not an original 1804 dollar. It is a new one-ounce gold proof struck in 2026 using Robert Scot's design and the 1804 date. Fifteen original 1804 silver dollars exist, held in museums and private collections.

Where can you buy the set once the Mint stops selling it?

Once the Mint stops selling a release, pieces trade on the secondary market. Collect Pure runs live order books where buyers post bids, sellers post asks, and every item is verified in Pure's own facility before the trade settles; the sold-out Liberty Bell pieces trade there now.

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*For the rest of the Mint's 250th-anniversary calendar, see the semiquincentennial coin guide. To watch what changes hands after a Mint sellout, the Pure marketplace is open.*