Depicts a portrait of Abbé Pierre, with his béret and the logo of his foundation, including a microtext stating 'Et les autres?' ('And the others?', his favorite motto to recall that one should never forget to help the others). The letters RF and the mint mark (Cornucopia, the logo of the Monnaie de Paris) appear on the left side, while the mintmaster privy mark (Pentagon with letters AG, MP and YS, Yves Sampo, the directors of the Paris Mint) is on the right side. The twelve stars of the European Union surround the design on the outer ring.

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