Depicts the University of Liège's coat of arms of and the inscriptions "200th Anniversary of the University of Liège" in French and English. To the left and the right are the dates 1817 and 2017. Below the indication of nationality 'BE' appears between mint and privy marks. The twelve stars of the European Union surround the design on the outer ring.

Adopted in 1967, the arms shows the arms of the town of Liège in the first and fourth quarters, while the second and third quarters recall the transfer of the university to the campus of Sart Tilmant.

Royal Belgian Mint:
• Mintmark: Head of Archangel Michael (Saint-Patron of Brussels)
• Director's privy mark: Coat of arms of the municipality Herzele (Ingrid Van Herzele)
• Engraver: Luc Luycx

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