"Rich" wrote:

"Special?" In what sense? They had D, ED, ED VR and the new f4.0
across the board.

The non-VR ED version would be "special," because if it ever
existed it was never released publicly. Nor is it listed in
the Archive section of the Nikon Imaging website.

I eagerly await your evidence of same as well as your
comparison photos.

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