Depicts a portrait of Louis Braille between his initials (L and B) in the Braille alphabet that he designed. Above the portrait is the inscription LOUIS BRAILLE and underneath the indication of the country (BE) between the dates 1809 and 2009. To the left and right respectively are the mint mark and the mint master mark. The outer ring of the coin depicts the twelve stars of the European flag.

Mintmark of the Royal Belgian Mint: Head of Archangel Michael (Saint-Patron of Brussels)
Director's privy mark: Quill (Serge Lesens)
Engraver: Jan Alfons Keustermans

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