Depicts the portrait of Prince Rainier III, the country name and date of the issue above surrounded by the mint marks of the mint (left) and the general engraver (right) above. The twelve stars of the European Union surround the design on the outer ring.

Mintmark: Cornucopia (Paris Mint, Pessac, France)
Privy marks of Joaquin Jimenez (the General Engraver of the Paris Mint): two nested squares superimposed on a rhinoceros head

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