| Description : The motif depicts the emblem of the University of Liège
with the year "1817" and "2017", surrounded in a circle by the inscription "200 ANS UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE ‐ 200 YEARS
UNIVERSITY OF LIEGE". Below is the country abbreviation "BE" (Belgium) flanked by the helmeted head of the Archangel
Michael the mint mark of the Royal Belgian mint Monnaie Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Munt van België /
Königliche Belgische Münzprägeanstalt in Brussels and the coat of arms of the municipality of Herzele the
logo of the mint master Ingrid Van Herzele. The campus of the university, founded at the time of the United Kingdom
of the Netherlands under King William I, is located in Sart Tilman, on a wooded hill in the south of Liège,
formerly owned by the Benedictine monasteries of St James and St Laurence, Abbaye Saint‐Jacques and Abbaye
Saint‐Laurent, founded at the beginning of the 11th century and existing until around 1800. The coat of arms,
designed for the 150th anniversary of the University in 1967, shows, under a crown and above the inscription
"Universitas Leodiensis" (Liège University in Latin), the iconographic attributes of St Lawrence (a grate, the
instrument of torture) and St James (scallops), as well as the coat of arms of the city of Liège. The latter
depicts three lions under a column carrying a pine cone. |
