Depicts the Hladnikia plant. On the left under the plant, its scientific name HLADNIKIA PASTINACIFOLIA is written in an arc. Around the image in a circle is the legends 'Slovenia 2010' and ''200th Anniversary of the Botanical Garden of Ljubljana'. The twelve stars of the European Union surround the design on the outer ring.

Hladnikia appears unpretentious when first seen and if nothing is known about it. However, it is one of the most distinguished plants of the Slovene flora. It has tripartite, denticulate, shining green leaves. Its whitish flowers are in characteristic umbellate clusters. It is representative of an independent genus, which has only one species. This in itself makes it a speciality, since the great majority of genera have a number of species. Hladnikia is also a geologically old species, being a relict preserved from the time before the ice ages.

It was found in the second decade of the nineteenth century, on Čaven, by the Slovene botanist, Franc Hladnik, a priest, a teacher in Ljubljana and founder of the Ljubljana Botanical Garden (1810), the oldest natural history institution here. The new species was called after him, and thus a monument was erected to him that the teeth of time cannot destroy.

Hladnikia grows on rocky meadows and cliffs in Trnovo forest, on Čaven, Kuclje, Zeleni rob and Poldonovec. It has a very restricted range of distribution. It is classified on the Slovene Red List among rare plants since it is one of the older endemics and has its classical locality - birthplace - here, where it was found and described.

Engraver: Goradz Učakar

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.”

SLOVENIA in Slovene