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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 3278680, member: 43872&quot;]I am certainly no expert.&nbsp; But the curves on the 5 look very different from the curves on the 8 in the example shown above of 1918.&nbsp; In fact, the 5 looks very much like the 5 in the 1945.&nbsp; Still, there is no way there could be room to have altered the 4 of 45 to a 1.&nbsp; Is it possible someone removed the last digit from a 1917, 1918, or 1919 then lifted the 5 from a 1945 to replace it?&nbsp; The odd angle of the upright on the 5 could have resulted in a slight error in this process.&nbsp; (I know I read in Coin World a few years ago of a 1927-S [MS 66 or 67, as I remember], authenticated by at least one TPG, that was eventually proved to have an S that someone had placed there.) The missing metal above the date could have been used as &quot;glue&quot; to stick the 5 on.&nbsp; It would not have had to have been intended as outright fraud, just some jeweler showing off his or her skill and afterwards placing it back into circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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