Depicts a beautiful mountain laurel, the country name in Finnish and Swedish as well as the issue date above. The Latin name of the flower, the logo of the Mint of Finland (lion) and the engraver's initial (e) below.

Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States. Mountain laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania. The plant was first recorded in America in 1624, but it was named after the Finnish explorer and botanist Pehr Kalm (1716–1779), who sent samples to Linnaeus.

Depicts Niagara Falls and the explorer making some measurements with the help of a sextant. The Eurostar logo (the special mark used on coins to indicate participation in the Europa Coin Programme) on the right. The inscription "The Linnaeus's Apostles" in Latin above. The name of the explorer and dates of his life on the left, the value on the right.

When explorers during the age of the Enlightenment headed off to the unknown corners of the Earth, the father of natural sciences, Carl Linnaeus, sent one of his 17 ‘apostles’, Finnish-born Pehr Kalm, off to North America. During the course of his dangerous travels through troubled regions, Kalm discovered hundreds of new varieties of plants. He wrote up his findings in a series of travel sketches and his description of Niagara Falls was published in several papers.

Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States.