Description

The Central Bank of Malta issued a €2 commemorative coin under a new programme entitled 'From Children in Solidarity', with the first theme being 'Solidarity Through Love'. This is an initiative between the Central Bank of Malta, the Ministry for Education and Employment, and the Malta Community Chest Fund. The Malta Community Chest Fund is a charitable foundation under the auspices of The President of Malta. It promotes various activities and initiatives that are undertaken with the aim of helping individuals with various needs.

Officially launched on 5 June 2015 by the President of Malta, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca and the Governor of the Central Bank of Malta, this social responsibility coin programme involved a coin design competition open to all secondary school students. From the designs submitted, five were selected by an adjudicating panel. The winning design was subsequently selected through a voting process which was open to all secondary school students. Schools encouraged students to take part in this voting exercise as this was seen as a way of promoting a sense of responsible citizenship from an early age.

There are two types of this coin:
• without mintmarks (in rolls)
• with the mintmark (Cornucopia) and director Yves Sampo's marks (Pentagon with letters AG) before and after inscription MALTA 2016 on the obverse (BU in coincard)