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The bill funds and formalizes a limited 9/11 commemorative coin program that supports the Memorial & Museum and preserves remembrance while offering collector options, but it shifts cost and sales risk onto coin buyers, raises administrative burdens for the Mint/Treasury, and does not itself create new benefits for survivors or first responders without further legislation.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum will receive dedicated surcharge funding for operations and maintenance, with surcharge receipts subject to federal audits, increasing financial support and transparency for the museum and its mission.
Collectors and the public can purchase officially authorized $5 gold and $1 silver commemorative coins (legal tender) offered in proof and uncirculated versions with preorder and bulk-purchase options, preserving remembrance while creating a formal, expert-curated commemorative process (involving the Museum, Commission of Fine Arts, and Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee).
The Treasury is required to recover all minting and issuance costs before making payments to recipients, limiting the risk that general taxpayers will bear net program costs.
Buyers of the commemorative coins will pay substantially higher prices because of required surcharges (e.g., $35 and $10), which raises costs for collectors and the public and may limit access to the memorialization the coins are meant to support.
Revenue to the Museum and other intended recipients is uncertain and contingent on coin sales: if sales are low, the surcharge may produce little or no funding, and payments are delayed until production costs are fully recovered, meaning the program may fail to deliver the promised support or will do so slowly.
Administering prepaid orders, bulk discounts, surcharges, cost recovery, audits, and transfers creates additional workload and administrative costs for the U.S. Mint and Treasury, may require reallocation of minting capacity, and could delay other coin programs or services.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes commemorative gold and silver coins for the 25th anniversary of 9/11, with surcharges directed to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum after Mint cost recovery.
Introduced March 10, 2025 by Daniel Goldman · Last progress March 10, 2025
Authorizes the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative $5 gold and $1 silver coins marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, with set design requirements and limited minting in 2027. A surcharge on each coin sale ($35 for gold, $10 for silver) is directed to the Memorial and Museum for operations and maintenance after the Mint recovers its costs; the program must impose no net cost on the federal government.