The Mayflower Compact appears on the first new quarter design in the U.S. Mint’s 2026 semiquincentennial coinage.
The Mint’s five-quarter sequence begins with the Mayflower Compact, followed by designs connected with the American Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Gettysburg Address. Together, the themes present a chronological story about American self-government, independence, constitutional development, and national unity.
The Mayflower Compact was created in 1620 by English colonists aboard the Mayflower before they established Plymouth Colony. It was an agreement to form a civil political body and create laws for the colony’s general good, making it an important early document in the story told by the commemorative series.
It is not the same document as the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. Those later texts receive separate quarter designs in the same 2026 program. The first quarter’s subject therefore identifies the opening theme of the series, not the document adopted in 1776.