For this family of typographies, capital and lower case S are usually virtually the same glyph, but scaled down. There's also two other things:
- The S has a slanted crossbar (a.k.a spine) - that's usual for the style - but the suspected 5 has a straight crossbar. I've never seen a typo of this style where the upper- and lower-case S glyphs use different crossbars. They're either both slanted or both straight.
- Suspected 5 has a terminal riser, but not a descender. That would be very, very unusual for an S glyph.
Both of these things, by the way, are very common ways to differentiate between S and 5 glyphs in this family. Kinda like we do the tail for the lower case L, the descender for the 1, etc.
Of course we'd have to see this particularly font to know 100% for sure (assuming it isn't bespoke), but I'm almost certain that's a 5.
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