Obverse: sea sailing sailboat. Instead of stylized sea waves engraved words - Portugal, Lisbon and other scholar expeditions, visited place names. Below are the words engraved name of the state PORTUGAL. Fernao Mendes Pinto name is inscribed in a semicircle above the sailboat, including its name, score years 1511 - 2011 m.
Reverse: regular € 2 denomination number.
About the coin: the coin of the famous Portuguese explorer Fernao Mendes Pinto's 500th birth anniversary. The researcher studied the Asian country and the sea, all the fascinating adventures are described in the book "Pilgrimage" (port. Peregrinação).
