about 22 years ago my brother bought a chip on ebay. it was considered to be an error chip. my brother emailed the seller how could he be sure it was an error. seller asked where do you live. if you buy the chip you can have it checked out by paulson in atlantic city. if it is not real the seller would take the chip back. he bought and when it arrived we went down to paulson. we get there and ask about the chip. a rep took it to the back and in 2 minutes said that the gold ink was missing from the inlay.

so either
A the chip is real because the manufacture said so
or
B the seller works for paulson or a friend and they lied.
i'm going with A

3 chips on the bottom the first 2 chips were new within 7 days of release, 3rd chip is in question.
2nd chip was set on a window sun taning for about a year.