Looks like they just started updating website. Improvement from yesterday there is a 2026 tab at the top now.
There's a limit to what I care about in 2026 tbh; the only products I'm really planning on buying from the Mint are the uncirculated set, and maybe some of the Steve Jobs dollars. I may reward myself for my recent work promotion with the reverse proof Morgan/Peace dollar set if the price isn't too crazy, but those will probably be dated 2025. I'm also determined to get a US Space Force medal, if they finally create one. What else... trying to think of anything announced for 2026 I'm really anticipating from US Mint products... I know they'll make a big deal about the dual date on everything, but that's not getting me that excited tbh.
That Steve Jobs dollar coin is a worthy USA collectible just because of what Jobs did in his life and all the accomplishments his company made with consumer-level computing devices. His birth mother was a college girl who got pregnant by her Syrian foreign-student boyfriend. He was raised as an adopted kid. As the leader of the company, he had some personality issues (fiery and obstinate). In a way, his early death from cancer likely cemented his legacy as a mostly positive one since we never really got to see what stupid ideas he would have latched onto that sprouted up in recent years. Think of Bill Gates nowadays. If only the Mint could keep the darned mintages of these LOW...
Mintages of Innovation dollars actually are pretty low, relatively. Some collectors are buying them, but not many, and most issues have a mintage of under a million, some under half a million. Mintages of the proofs and reverse proofs are even lower, some with mintages under 100,000. People who do roll hunting of small dollars always get really excited when Innovation dollars show up. (I got 2 of the Alabama dollars as change from a vending machine once!) I am reminded of someone that posted here once that "a mintage of 2 is still too high, if only one person wants one" lol but still, they are being minted in relatively low numbers, which makes sense for a coin that is not being minted for circulation (even though on rare occasions they still do circulate sometimes) and is only being sold directly to collectors. Steve Jobs wasn't perfect, nobody is, but I think it's fair to say that his contributions were a net positive; technology is in a better place today because of what he contributed. Plus I just think the design of the California innovation dollar is aesthetically pleasing. I'm not bothering to collect every Innovation dollar in the series, most just aren't that interesting to me, but I do want that one. (I'll also get at least one of any that has anything to do with space!)
Mabie I don't admit it often but I do collect all the modern dollars, new rolls as they come out, and the low mintages, reverse proofs ECT, just feel they are under appreciated and very affordable series.
