Medals were made for Presidential gift fund simultaneously with the occurrence of the arms museum on a presidential floor of the Senatorial palace in Russian president residence in 1997.
For a museum of the arms Special factory "Poisk (Search) 1" (the general contractor of Russian President administrative Office on equipment by heraldic symbols of the supreme government bodies) made 14 natural Russian arms most typical for different historical epoch - from the first Russian arms of Ivan III up to the modern arms of Russian Federation. These arms are represented on medals.
Alloy of aluminum zinc and magnesium is a basis of a medal.
The medals' covering - gold, silver and enamel.
Medals' cases are made from mahogany, its manual work. It is made 550 sets of medals in total.
Serial number of set is stamped on the back of each medal.
The number 1 belongs to the First President of Russia B.N. Eltsin.