In the central field the word D-DAY written in such a way as to depict a landing craft and a tank gun barrel. The years 1944-2014 appear above the tank gun, with the inscription ‘70th anniversary of the landings' further down. The distinctive footprints left by the boots worn by American, British and Canadian troops are gradually disappearing in the sand, washed away by a wave. The words of a poem by Verlaine used as a code for the start of the landings are engraved on the wave: ‘the long sobs of the violins of autumn wound my heart with a monotonous languor’. Mint and privy marks below the inscriptions. The coin's outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Mint mark of the Paris Mint (Monnaie de Paris in Pessac): Cornucopia
Mint master's mark: Pentagon with letters AG, MP and YS, Yves Sampo, the directors of the Paris Mint

Engraver: Joaquin Jimenez

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