The Mayflower Compact appears on one of the 2026 semiquincentennial quarters.
The Mayflower Compact was an agreement signed in 1620 by English settlers aboard the Mayflower before they established Plymouth Colony. It organized the settlers into a civil political body and pledged cooperation under laws created for the general good of the colony.
The 2026 quarter’s design shows two Pilgrims and the Mayflower. It connects the America250 coin series to an earlier episode in the development of self-government in English North America, more than 150 years before the Declaration of Independence.
The compact was not a declaration of independence and did not create the United States. It was a colonial agreement, and its signers were not all the passengers aboard the Mayflower. The semiquincentennial program also included quarters devoted to the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address.