Depicts a portrait of Dante Alighieri, inspired by a painting by Sandro Botticelli, in a three-quarter profile to the right, below the engraver's name and the Palazzo Vecchio. Dante's signature and the dates below. The state name above. The outer ring contains the twelve stars of the European Union.

The Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of Florence, Italy. It has been the seat of the Florentine government for centuries, and today it’s a museum, full of charm and surprises. One of these surprises is Dante’s death mask, quietly guarded in a small glass display case. The mask isn’t authentic. Meaning that it wasn’t made from the face of the deceased Dante.

Engraver: Patrizio Daniele

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