Depicts Marianne, the symbol of the Republic, in profile in a contemporary style. She is wearing a Phrygian cap. On the right, the tricolour cockade appears in the outline above the letters RF. The year is written in the centre. The left side features a stanza from the poem ‘Liberté’ by the French poet Paul Eluard, an allusion to the motto of the French Republic. The mint marks appear alongside this extract.

• Mintmark of the Paris Mint: cornucopia (horn of plenty)
• The Mint director Yves Sampo's privy mark: pentagon with letters AG, MP and YS
• Engraver Joaquin Jimenez's privy mark: two nested squares superimposed on a rhinoceros head

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