The details of the genuine have been very carefully copied; so much so, in fact, that it is very difficult to describe the differences between it and the forged. In the latter, the lines do not extend right across the face, there being a space left between the eye and chin; this last slants into the throat, giving the Queen a “bull-necked” expression. There is a well-defined space at the back lower portion of the neck.

These are detected with the greatest ease, all the dies being from one matrix, the denomination of value alone being altered. All the angles therefore contain an imitation of the one used in the genuine two cents.

The ornaments in the angles are very coarsely engraved, and are thick and ill-shaped. There is no noticeable space between the line under POSTAGE, and those forming the groundwork. The bottom stroke of the A in POSTAGE runs into the G.