Lithographed in black, on yellowish white paper. Every C in the inscriptions has very square corners, which makes it look more like an E without the central tongue. The king appears to have got the mange, or some other similar disease, for his hair is all coming off in patches, and is cropped very close. The eye is very faintly indicated. The beard points very much forward, and comes down level with the middle of the final letter of BOLLO. There is a hyphen between POSTE and 05. The 0 does not appear to be larger than the 5. There is a very distinct border of pearls round the outside of the stamp. The line of shading- on the bust, which marks the spring of the shoulder, scarcely curves up at all, and follows almost exactly, the outline of the base of the neck. There is a small ornamental fleur- de-lis in each corner, in a sort of square. The spandrels in the corners are very difficult to describe, but they are quite different from those of the forgeries. The colour of the stamp is a dull, greasy-looking black.

Lithographed in rose-pink, on yellowish white paper. This stamp is very similar to the 5 C., and I shall therefore only describe the points where it differs, referring the reader to the 5 C. for the rest. The hair is of a medium length, and curly. There is some very light shading on the right shoulder. The mustache is very heavy, and the upward curl of the nostril is well marked. The tail of the Q in QUARANTA is a straight down-stroke. The 4 of 40 is at some distance from the O. In both the 5 C. and 40 C., the top fleurs-de-lis almost touch the corners of the inner frame, C’s, as in 5 C.; hyphen, ditto; pearls, ditto; spandrels, ditto; beard, ditto.