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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 4370182, member: 27832&quot;]Yup, the Mint&#039;s designers failed to learn the Buffalo nickel lesson: don&#039;t make the date a high point of the design. This was <i>probably</i> minted sometime between 1917 and 1924; before that, there were no stars under the eagle, and after that, the date was recessed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint mark, if any, usually holds up better than the date, but I don&#039;t see any evidence of a mint mark on this coin. The only premium P-mint SLQ from this date range is the 1921. This coin doesn&#039;t show any hint of a last digit.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the members here has experimented with etchants to raise dates on silver coins, and claimed to have restored a 1923-S. He sent it to ICG for authentication, and they wouldn&#039;t slab it. Date restoration on silver just doesn&#039;t work very well, and if you could do it, it would be fairly easy to fake whatever date you want. I guess ICG realizes that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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