2 euro BELGIUM (2010) Presidency of Belgium in the EU Council

in the coin centre a logo of the Belgian presidency in the EU; below year of issue: 2010; along the top edge: BELGIAN PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EU 2010; along the bottom edge: BELGIE BELGIQUE BELGIEN (Belgium in Dutch, French and German); at the edge a ring of twelve five-pointed stars - symbol of the European Union

left from the coin centre face value: 2, on the right inscription: EURO; in the background of the inscription a map of Europe; 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 VII 2010

still in circulation

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

De Koninklijke Munt van België (in Dutch) / La Monnaie Royale de Belgique (in French) (The Royal Belgian Mint), Brussels (mintmark before 2010 on the obverse, after 2010 a privy mark of mint's chief Serge Lesens)

2010

5 000 000

+ 6 000 in boxed sets

 We are presenting below privy marks of The Royal Belgian Mint directors, which appear on Belgian coins of euro:

Romain Coenen	1988-2009		scale
Serge Lesens	2010-2012		feather
Bernard Gillard	from 2013		cat

The Presidency of the EU Council is a six-month period of leading the Council of the European Union and representing the Union abroad. The idea of Belgium for the presidency in the European Union Council was to cooperate with the previous president Spain and the following Hungary. In this way Belgium was leading the Union for 18 months instead of guaranteed six. A web-site showing the effects of triple-presidency eutrio.be was implemented in a promotional logo. Unfortunately the logo is so unclear that the address looks rather like trio.be, which leads to nowhere.