Description Commemorate your visit to Big Bend National Park with this die-struck medallion created by master artisans. Great as a gift, to celebrate a trip or to just hold as a lasting reminder of your journey through America’s great outdoors, this National Parks medallion will capture the Big Bend experiences meaningful to you in enduring, splash-minted metal. Running through southwest Texas and along the U.S./Mexico border, Big Bend National Park is a fascinating place consisting of archaeological treasures, petrified trees, vestiges of prehistoric cultures, and unusual forms of plant and animal life. From hot desert landscapes to spectacular river canyons, a visitor to the park can quickly go from one extreme to the other while witnessing an exceptional diversity of wildlife. The medallion’s obverse shows a desert cactus with the year the park was established. The reverse depicts a park regular, the warthog with encircling text commemorating the centennial of America’s first National Park. Minted in deep relief using a special “splash minting” process, this coin is struck in a brass alloy and given a beautiful lacquered finished. Each coin measures 1 1/2 inch (38.1mm) in diameter.
