OBVERSE

On the heart, the legend “225 ^TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE FRENCH IN MALTA” and a design commemorating the two hundred and twenty-five years since the arrival of the French in Malta, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, representing the allegory of France draped and armoured, wearing a plumed helmet, seated against a lictor’s fasces, between a griffin and a lion, holding a lance whose handle is surmounted by a Phrygian cap; on the left, the word “Liberté” in cursive; on the right, the word “Egalité” in cursive; in the upper part, the years 1798 and 2023; below the ground line, the year 2023 and the initials NGB of the engraver Noel Galea Bason; on the crown, the twelve emblematic European five-pointed stars point upwards.

REVERSE

Reverse common to all 2 Euro coins.