Which speech is honored by one of the five 2026 America250 semiquincentennial quarter designs?

The Gettysburg Address is honored by one of the five 2026 America250 semiquincentennial quarter designs.

The quarter’s obverse features Abraham Lincoln, who delivered the address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. Its reverse shows two hands grasping one another alongside words drawn from the speech.

Lincoln’s address followed the Battle of Gettysburg and lasted only a few minutes, yet it became one of the best-known statements about the Civil War’s meaning and the nation’s founding principles. The 2026 coin places that nineteenth-century speech within a program celebrating the country’s longer historical development.

The Gettysburg Address quarter is one of five designs issued for the semiquincentennial. The other subjects are the Mayflower Compact, the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution.