Is there a way to discover which version of Vista is licensed from the Notebook COA sticker?

Hi,
I have recently retired and had the opportunity to buy my corporate laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook) which I did. Although, when new, the laptop was pre-licensed for Vista, it was installed and managed by the corporate IT department under their corporate license
agreement ending up with Win7 at the time I bought it. Of course the hard drive had to be erased, and I want to go back and install Vista as originally licensed. I have no recovery disk and plan to contact Fujitsu to ask them nicely for one. Now I come to
my problem. The 25 digit product key is readable, a 14 digit something or other is also readable, but the Vista operating system version is illegible. Is it possible to find this out from the other information which is legible so that I can ask Fujitsu for
the right recovery disk?

The program linked to below correctly identified a Vista version from the product key.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/The-Ultimate-PID-Checker.shtml
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