What I have/had come to think of as my original was one of those beige-paper-with-background-pattern-and-state-seal jobbies. That may be a duplicate, I'm not certain, but I've never seen any inverse copies of, well, any.
I don't think any other birth certificates I've seen (a very tiny sample) have been white-on-black like that either -- for all I know that may have been specific to a particular period in Virginia -- but that mine was so was a tip off that it wasn't the original original.
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