Depicts the monumental portrait "The Emperor Charlemagne" by Albrecht Duerer (1511/13, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg). In the background, a landscape with mountains and a river, representing the rich scenery of Andorra. The country name above. The date on the right.

As the inscription above the painting indicates, the image of the emperor created by the Nuremberg master was not copied but sprang entirely from his imagination. The panel, together with a portrait of Emperor Sigismund of the same size, served as doors to a cabinet that held the coronation vestments and imperial insignia in the night before the annual public ceremony on Nuremburg’s main market square.

Charlemagne holds the sward and wears the Imperial Regalia. The Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire (German: Reichskrone), a hoop crown (German: Bügelkrone) with a characteristic octagonal shape, was the coronation crown of the Holy Roman Emperor, probably from the late 10th century until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. The crown was used in the coronation of the King of the Romans, the title assumed by the Emperor-elect immediately after his election. It is now kept in the Imperial Treasury (Kaiserliche Schatzkammer) at the Hofburg in Vienna, Austria.

The twelve stars of the European flag are shown on the outer coin ring.

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