[2] The medal was authorised in April 1793 by Lord Cornwallis, the Governor-General of India, who had commanded HEIC forces in Mysore.

[4] Europeans, including those in HEIC service and with British Army, did not receive the medal.

[6] The Government of India commissioned a private goldsmith in Calcutta to prepare the dies and strike the medals in gold and in silver.

All types had a common design:[4] The obverse depicts a full-length image of a Sepoy holding a Union Jack in his right hand and the flag of Mysore, upside down, in his left.

The reverse has, within a laurel wreath, the English wording FOR SERVCIES IN MYSORE AD 1791-1792 with, around the edge, the Persian inscription that translates as: A token of the bravery of the troops of the English Government in the war in Mysore, in the Hijri years 1205-1206.The medal was issued unnamed.