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Monaco
The edge lettering on the Monoguese 2‐Euro‐commemorative coins is :
Image	Country		Feature	Ref.
		Monaco	300th anniversary of the birth of Honoré III	20001 20002
	Description : Honoré III (1720‐1795), son of Princess Louise‐Hippolyte, became prince of Monaco in 1732 at the age of 11. But he left the regency to his uncle Antoine Grimaldi. Only after his death he returned from Paris to Monaco 1784. Due to the French Revolution of 1789 the Grimaldis lost their privileges of nobility and their possessions in France. With the deposition of Louis XVI France became a republic in 1792 and annexed Monaco in 1793. Honoré III was arrested and died in a dungeon in Paris in 1795. The coin shows him according to a painting by Jean‐Baptiste van Loo (1684‐1745), which is presented in the throne room of the princely palace in Monaco. On the left is "HONORÉ III", on the right "MONACO", below "1720 ♦ Naissance ♦ 2020" (1720 ♦ birth ♦ 2020). A cornucopia as mint mark of the French mint Monnaie de Paris in Pessac is shown on the left, a pentagon as the mint master's mark Yves Sampos on the right.

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