The medal's obverse bears bust of Franklin Delano Roosevelt facing left. Around, FOUR FREEDOMS VICTORY MEDAL / FRANKLIN D / ROOSEVELT.

The reverse bears burning torch and laurel wreath. Above, VICTORY MEDAL; below, FOUR FREEDOMS / FREEDOM OF SPEECH / FREEDOM OF WORSHIP / FREEDOM FROM FEAR / FREEDOM FROM WANT.

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:

Freedom of speech

Freedom of worship

Freedom from want

Freedom from fear

The Robbins Company had designed a gold medal with a different reverse that was to be given to Roosevelt and awarded to major contributors to the war effort. Unfortunately, Roosevelt died before the end of World War II and Robbins created this medal to be issued on its own behalf.

The circular medal measures 36mm in diameter and was struck in bronze, silver, gilt bronze and gold by the Robbins Company of Attleboro, Massachusetts. The four known gold pieces were given to Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Chang Kai Shek.  The less rare variants are all estimated to exist in mintages between 201 and 500.  A single galvano is also known to exist.

The medal is known as a so-called dollar and the bronze, silver and gilt variants are often referred to by their identifiers HK-912, HK-911 and  HK-913 respectively.

Again, many thanks to Harry Waterson for the details and corrections he supplied to the documentation of this medal.