50 euro Europe of Arts series France - Edgar Degas

Obverse: Europe represented as a ship floating under the twelve stars of the European Union; on the left the year of issue “2005”; on the right the monogram of the Italian Republic “RI”; below in the centre the name of the designer “E.L. FRAPICCINI”. Reverse: The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, statue by Edgar Degas, Ballerina realised between 1865 andl 1881; below, the artist's signature “E. DEGAS”; on the left, the mintmark “R”; on the right, the coin's value “50 EURO”; on top, archshaped “EUROPA DELLE ARTI”.