It had the letters '拾両後藤 (written seal mark)' (ten-ryo Goto) written with indian-ink by Hojo GOTO the sixteenth and Tenjo the seventeenth on its surface, and it was a little angular, oval coin with a hallmark of paulownia in a circle each on the upper, lower, left and right parts of it.
表面は「拾両後藤（花押）」と墨書され、後藤十六代方乗、十七代典乗の書であり、上下左右に丸枠桐極印がそれぞれ一箇所、計四箇所打たれ、形状はやや角ばった楕円形である。