US Mint 2026 Congratulations Set Available On February 26

Morgans Dad, the U.S. Mint did not make the 60,000 mintage limit. They stopped short of it. It was announced on their official x.com post, https://x.com/usmint/status/2027073607176688028 that all available units were sold and more will be produced up to the mintage limit. They did not say when they will continue production up to the published mintage limit. So as of right now, from their sales figure and what they posted, the adjusted sales figure is what was actually produced. That leaves a little over 20k sets still available for production at a future date, if that should come. There is no rule that they must produce the mintage limit, except that is the max.

There is no rule about them producing more but below the max limit. They can always say the available production supply has been exhausted and no future production will made because of issues sourcing the blanks or they are focus will be on future products releases. Hopefully they don't do this, and will continue to produce it to meet demand up to max limit. Only those in charge will be privy to what they do.

If you watch the 250th anniversary video from the mint on how it's made, it takes about 20 seconds to produce one proof. From using the compress air to clean, using the tweezers to place the blanks onto the press and for the press to do its job and then removal. At a non stop rate, it will be 3 proof coins a minute, it will take a little over 4 and a half days continuously non stop at one press to produce the 20k amount, not to mention packaging. Depending on how many press they dedicate to the mintage, and how long it takes to switch out dies after their lifespan, it may be some time before they are available.

That all seems to clarify things very well.
As we can all see, it's a "wait and see" at this point. Again, personally, I have all I need, I works be interested in knowing what the final number is, particularly on the RF, but at this point I'm not giving or much thought or attention.

So the updated sales figure from March 15, 2026 is:

2026 Congratulations Set: 40,064 (869 additional sales)

2026-W Proof American Silver Eagle: 299,696 (4,286 additional sales)

According to people from PCGS's collectors forum, the coins popped up for a few seconds recently as available but non of them were able to finish the manual checkout process before it was sold out again. It was most likely bots/scripts that snipped them.

Remember that are mintage LIMITS. They didn't need to meet the limit, it can be less. I guess it can go over the limit, too, but it would be unusual if they did that.

Perfect example that many don't know about.
The authorized limit on the 10th Anniversary set was 45,000. It failed to sell out, I imagine due to the gold in the set.
If the Mint decided later to sell the remainder up to the mintage limit, that would be a very different set of circumstances for the ASE collecting world.
I can only imagine they'll mint the 2026P up to or probably just short of the limit.

I'm only trying to point out that often times the mintage limit is not an absolute, it can be less. In trying to support your view.
More than likely it will meet the limit closer than we see it as at this moment.
But not unheard of if it doesn't.
I have other feelings about why the 95W fell so short, but little to base my theory on.
Ultimately I think it was the cost of the set you had to buy.

The original 1995 gold coin set that contained the 1995-W sold for $999.

The total gold in the set was 1.85oz, so using that number and the year end $388.10/oz for gold, the total cost per ounce was $540/oz. $540/$388.1 #8201;=#8201;1.391. The premium was 39%.

If we use 2026 set as a comparison, the cost of 2026 4-coin set is $11,040 which brings it to about $5,967.57 per ounce. Using $5000/oz for gold right now, the premium is 19%.

So back then the premium is a little over twice what the U.S. Mint is charging for gold right now. This led to the low sales of the 1995 set. People were hoping that purchasers of the 1995 would break the set apart to purchase the 1995-W silver eagle by themselves.

Imagine now how many would have over $11,040 to drop on a gold eagle set to obtain a special edition silver eagle. There wouldn't be many. So far only 3,420 of the 4-coin set has been sold out of 15,000.

The cost was very prohibitive to obtain the 1995-W back then and would be the same case now if they decide to charge a 39% premium at a cost of $12,857.50 to obtain a silver eagle with the 4-coin set.