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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Purcell" data-source="post: 1809847" data-attributes="member: 68323">The info Kevin provides shows that they did switch mirror coating but kept the same cordura pouch.The B is the german abbreviation for Brillenträger meaning "long eye relief". A quick check seems to indicate that they dropped the B in the catalogs at or before the 52-20-35 product (i.e. the one that has dielectric coating) but my 52-20-35 bins have 8x20 B T* on the bin themselves.The Victory compact was introduced in 2001 (the same year as the Diascopes).http://www.zeiss.de/C125716F004E0776/0/3513981354B79969C12571750047B351/$File/Innovation_10_35.pdfso the models from 2001 to 2004 had silver coating and cordura pouches.If you have the Victory 8 x 20 with the cordura pouch you need to know the product number to be sure if it is silver coated or dielectric coated. Or to have a serial after one that you know is dielectric coated. So assuming mine  is that serial number is 27478xx</blockquote>