There is a photo online with the certificate number not blacked out (again, wish I could remember where I saw it. I roam the internet a lot and am not good at bookmarking my tracks). The explanation on the site I saw it was that at the time the Obama campaign released the scan they didn’t know if the cert. # was something that should be blacked out or not but have since learned it’s not necessary to block out.
But a pic of that cert. with the number intact is out there.
Got it - thanks. It would be interesting to verify, though.
Source?