Medal - National Wildlife Refuge System Bald Eagle

Reverse

Theodore Roosevelt standing on a rock

Script: Latin

Lettering:
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM
CELEBRATING A
CENTURY
OF CONSERVATION
1903-2003
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
NEN

Engraver: Norman E. Nemeth

Designer: Donna Weaver

Edge

Plain

Comment

The limited–edition 2003 National Wildlife Refuge System Centennial Medal design shares a common obverse honoring President Theodore Roosevelt, the father of the National Wildlife Refuge System, and four successive reverse images highlighting the system’s diversity. The medals will be the first United States Mint product to use laser technology.