US Mint releases 9/11 anniversary half-dollar coin
The Semiquincentennial Enduring Liberty Half Dollar features the phrase 'NEVER FORGET'.
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US Mint releases 9/11 anniversary half-dollar coin
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What this story says
- The US Mint is issuing a new half-dollar coin to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
- The coin is named the Semiquincentennial Enduring Liberty Half Dollar and includes the inscription 'NEVER FORGET'.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated the coin honours victims and first responders.
- The coins can be pre-ordered until September 25 and are expected to ship by December 3.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 10 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 2 of the 12 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .
Trust
42/100
Craft
57/100
Hype
41/100
12 sources · methodology
Missing from the left
None of the 10 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.
A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.
The United States Mint is releasing a new half-dollar coin to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The coin is named the Semiquincentennial Enduring Liberty Half Dollar and features the phrase 'NEVER FORGET'. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the coin honours the memory of those lost and the courage of those who saved others. The coin will be available for pre-order on the Mint's website until September 25, with shipping expected to begin by December 3.
Coin details and pricing
The Semiquincentennial Enduring Liberty Half Dollar features an image of Lady Liberty and the date of the attack circled by the phrase 'NEVER FORGET'. The reverse side depicts Liberty passing her torch to a new generation, with inscriptions including 'E pluribus unum' and 'Half Dollar'. A 20-coin roll costs $40 and a 100-coin bag costs $100. The coins are struck at the Philadelphia Mint.
What the coverage left out
None of the right-rated reports or digests mentioned the specific number of coins presented to the 9/11 Memorial, a detail included in the centre-rated report from The Hill. The centre-rated report did not include information on the coin's design, pricing, or the Treasury Secretary's statement.
Coverage settled. We checked this 94 times and stopped on 17 Sept 2026, 13:00. The figures above are what it finished at.
How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
0 rated outlets
No outlet rated left ran this story. We watched the coverage until it stopped changing, and none appeared.
Centre
2 rated outlets
- The Hill's digest reported that the U.S. Mint presented 2,983 Enduring Liberty half dollars to the 9/11 Memorial to honour victims of the 2001 and 1993 terrorist attacks. This digest did not include details on the coin's name, pricing, or pre-order information.
Right
8 rated outlets
- Eight right-rated reports focused on the US Mint's release of the Semiquincentennial Enduring Liberty Half Dollar coin to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11. These reports consistently highlighted the coin's 'NEVER FORGET' inscription. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's statement honouring victims and first responders was included in several accounts. The New York Post, which published a full report, also detailed the coin's design, including Lady Liberty and the torch imagery, and mentioned the release of $1 coins featuring President Trump's face. The pricing of $40 for a 20-coin roll and $100 for a 100-coin bag was also reported across multiple right-rated digests and the New York Post.
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover US Mint releases 9/11 anniversary half-dollar coin?
- Of the 10 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 10% are rated centre, 90% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 12. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is US Mint releases 9/11 anniversary half-dollar coin left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 10 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of US Mint releases 9/11 anniversary half-dollar coin biased?
- US Mint releases 9/11 anniversary half-dollar coin is one event reported by 12 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting US Mint releases 9/11 anniversary half-dollar coin?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered US Mint releases 9/11 anniversary half-dollar coin?
- 12 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- What is the new coin called?
- The new coin is called the Semiquincentennial Enduring Liberty Half Dollar. It is being released by the US Mint to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
- What does the coin feature?
- The coin features an image of Lady Liberty and the date of the 9/11 attacks circled by the phrase 'NEVER FORGET'. The reverse side shows Liberty passing her torch to a new generation.
- How much does the coin cost?
- A 20-coin roll of the Semiquincentennial Enduring Liberty Half Dollar costs $40, and a 100-coin bag costs $100. The coins are available for pre-order through September 25.
Read it at the source
12 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Centre
2Right
8- US Mint unveils special 9/11 half-dollar coin on 25th anniversary (opens Washington Examiner in a new tab)
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- ‘Never Forget’: New U.S. Half Dollar Honors 9/11 Victims, First Responders (opens wbap.com in a new tab)
- U.S. Mint Releases 9/11 ‘Never Forget’ Commemorative Coin. (opens The National Pulse in a new tab)
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- ‘Never Forget’: New U.S. Half Dollar Honors 9/11 Victims, First Responders (opens The Dallas Express News in a new tab)
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- U.S. Mint Prints 9/11 Coin (opens American Faith in a new tab)
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- U.S. Mint Commemorates 9/11 Anniversary with New Half Dollar Coin Declaring: NEVER FORGET (opens Breitbart in a new tab)
- U.S. Mint releases half-dollar coin marking 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks (opens OAN in a new tab)
- US Mint commemorates 9/11 25th anniversary with new half-dollar coin: ‘NEVER FORGET’ (opens New York Post in a new tab)
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