2 euro AUSTRIA (2002-2006)

bust of Bertha von Suttner facing left; on the left in two lines face value: 2 / EURO; below Austrian flag; along the right edge year of issue; at the edge a ring of twelve five-pointed stars - symbol of the European Union

left from the centre face value: 2, on the right inscription: EURO; in the background of the inscription a simplified map of Europe showing borders of countries - members of the EU in 1999; in the background of the map vertically six parallel lines ending on both sides with five-pointed stars (the reverse is common for all euro coins)

reeded with concave inscription:

1 I 2002

still in circulation

Josef Kaiser, Luc Luycx (initials LL below letter 'O' in EURO on the reverse)

Münze Österreich (Austrian Mint), Vienna

2002	196 400 000	+ 100 000 in boxed sets
2003	4 700 000	+ 125 000 in boxed sets
2004	2 500 000	+ 100 000 in boxed sets
2006	2 300 000	+ 100 000 in boxed sets

2002 - a) stars in the edge inscription are large and shallow or b) stars small and deep

Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) Austrian writer, journalist and pacifist. The first woman to be awarded Peace Nobel Prize (1905).