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Belgium
The edge lettering of the Belgian 2‐euro‐commemorative coins is : Different embossings are noted in the individual description.	Belgian mint mark until 2017 :

Image	Country		Feature	Ref.
		Belgium	1st Centenary of the International Women's Day	20001 20002
	Description : The coin minted for the 100th International Women's Day shows the physician Isala van Diest (1842‐1916) on the left next to the staff of Asclepius entwined by a snake and the educator and jurist Marie Popelin (1846‐1913) on the right next to the scales of Justice as an attribute. Both had a decisive influence on the Belgian women's movement. Their portraits appear in front of a slightly slanted Venus symbol representing the female sex. The names "I.VAN DIEST" on the left and "M.POPELIN" on the right are written in a semicircle below, with the year of issue "2011" in between. The coin was designed by Luc Luycx. Next to the country abbreviation "BE" (Belgium) a feather is depicted at the top left the logo of the mint master Serge Lesens, on the right the helmeted head of the Archangel Michael the the mint mark of the Royal Belgian mint Monnaie Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Munt van België / Königliche Belgische Münzprägeanstalt in Brussels.

References :
20001	Images taken with authorisation by the ECB ‐ Mail dated 20.Feb.2020 © "European Central Bank"	20002	Text taken from German Wikipedia and translated by DeepL
20003	Images taken temporally from the Internet	20004	Not Applicable