The inner part depicts the 'Portrait of a Man' together with his signature and a painter's palette that also contains the initials LL, referring to the designer of the coin, Luc Luycx and two paintbrushes. The painter's name is above the portrait. Belgian mint director Ingrid Van Herzele's mark (coat of arms of the municipality Herzele) and a logo of the Royal Dutch Mint (caduceus or Mercury's wand, a short staff entwined by two serpents) on the bottom. Date and country code (BE) on the right. The outer ring depicts the twelve stars of the European flag.

Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (also Portrait of a Man in a Turban or Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban) is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, from 1433. The inscription at the top of the panel, Als Ich Can (intended as "as I/Eyck can") was a common autograph for van Eyck, but here is unusually large and prominent. This fact, along with the man's unusually direct and confrontational gaze, have been taken as an indication that the work is a self-portrait.

A geographical map of Western Europe spans the outer ring and inner core on the right side of the coin. The inscription 2 EURO is superimposed over the map of Europe, with the numeral “2” located in an open field representing the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

12 stars are located on the right side of the outer ring, with six stars atop the map of Europe and six stars below it; six vertical stripes cut across the inner core of the coin, visually connecting the upper and lower star segments.

Luc Luycx, a designer at the Royal Belgian Mint, designed the Euro’s common reverse; his initials, LL, are seen on the right side of the design, just under the “O” in “EURO.”

The sequence "2 ★ ★" repeated six times alternately upright and inverted