The 7 above is also missing some dots on the right, so there’s an entire vertical strip of erased ink. The numbers are up to 5 dots wide, but the existing 3 only has 4 dots on the bottom. It’s possible that a fifth is supposed to be there one spot higher, matching the missing number, but it just got clipped by the erased part.
I made a comment above explaining why I think it’s a monospaced font with each character 5 dots wide, with 2 dots of space between characters. The 1 uses 3 dots and the 0 uses 4, while the period and colon use 2 dots of width. But each of these less than 5-dot-wide characters also is surrounded by more than the typical 2 dots worth of space, proportional to the assumption that each character is assigned 5 dots of width.
BBD (best by date) is going to be 1 year, or some other legally specified number of days, from the date of manufacturing/canning. It can fall on the end of a month, but not intentionally. 28-Mar-2025 was a Friday.
I’d say 3, except that the 3 on the line above has a flat bottom line.
If it’s also missing some dots from the middle, it could be part of the second and third columns of a 2.
I still vote for 3.
The 7 above is also missing some dots on the right, so there’s an entire vertical strip of erased ink. The numbers are up to 5 dots wide, but the existing 3 only has 4 dots on the bottom. It’s possible that a fifth is supposed to be there one spot higher, matching the missing number, but it just got clipped by the erased part.
I’m convinced. I’m team 3.
Actually now I am too. The digits all seem to be normally 5 dots wide.
Except zero for some reason.
To differentiate it from O - making 0 narrow is a common way to do that
I made a comment above explaining why I think it’s a monospaced font with each character 5 dots wide, with 2 dots of space between characters. The 1 uses 3 dots and the 0 uses 4, while the period and colon use 2 dots of width. But each of these less than 5-dot-wide characters also is surrounded by more than the typical 2 dots worth of space, proportional to the assumption that each character is assigned 5 dots of width.
That’s a possibility.
My other argument, though, is that in 2026 February 28 is the end of a month, while March 28 is a random Saturday.
BBD (best by date) is going to be 1 year, or some other legally specified number of days, from the date of manufacturing/canning. It can fall on the end of a month, but not intentionally. 28-Mar-2025 was a Friday.
Ah yes, I’d say 2 is the most likely candidate
Edit: I’m on team 3 now thanks to radix’s comment
Another argument in favor of 2 is that February 2026 has 28 days, so 2 is the only digit that would make the date the end of a month.