Obverse: The set consists of five 2013 German commemorative €2 coins, struck at all five German mints and identified by the mint marks A, D, F, G and J. The centre of the coin depicts the two statesmen who signed the Élysée Treaty – German Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French President Charles de Gaulle. Between the portraits appear the inscription and dates 50 ANS JAHRE 2013, while the name of the treaty appears above and below in French and German as TRAITÉ DE L'ÉLYSÉE and ÉLYSÉE-VERTRAG. The composition is complemented by the signatures of both statesmen, the German country code D and the corresponding mint mark. The outer ring features the 12 stars of the European Union.
Reverse: The reverse features the design characteristic of all €2 coins: a geographical map of Western Europe positioned on the right side of the coin and extending across both the inner and outer sections. The inscription 2 EURO appears above the map, while the numeral 2 is set against the Atlantic Ocean. The outer ring features 12 stars positioned on both sides of the map, with vertical lines visually connecting the upper and lower stars.
About the coins: The 2013 German commemorative €2 coins are dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Élysée Treaty. The treaty was signed on 22 January 1963 at the Élysée Palace in Paris by Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle, strengthening cooperation between Germany and France after the Second World War. In 2013, Germany and France issued commemorative coins featuring a shared motif – the first occasion on which two euro-area countries issued commemorative €2 coins with the same principal design. This set contains coins from all five German mints: A – Berlin, D – Munich, F – Stuttgart, G – Karlsruhe and J – Hamburg. The total German mintage of this commemorative coin was 11 million pieces.
