The United States Mint produces a variety of national medals to commemorate significant historical events or sites and to honor those whose superior deeds and achievements have enriched U.S. history or the world.   Some of these are bronze duplicates of Congressional Gold Medals authorized by Congress under separate Public Laws, while others are produced under the Secretary of the Treasury's authority to strike national medals.

The United States Mint offers several bronze medal replicas on the United States Mint's online catalog.

Some recent awardees of the Congressional gold medals include:

• The Women Airforce Service Pilots
• Sen. Edward William Brooke III
• Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
• Dalai Lama
• Dr. Norman Borlaug
• Byron Nelson
• Tuskegee Airmen