Storing - Old percocet (brand name, too)

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First of all, Swim knows this is NOT A PILL ID site. Swim's query is a little different than mere identification....


Swim's cat recently came into a bottle of Vicodin (hydrocodone/apap) from around 1992. Inside, the previous occupant has stashed (in a cupcake wrapper of all things) 2 percocets (oxycodone/apap) in the bottle, so Swim assumes the percocet is old as well. Here's the tricky part....

It's brand name Percocet, DuPont on the other side of the pill. Usually, however, the dose (2.5, 5, 7.5, 10) was imprinted on the pill itself. This pill merely says PERCOCET on one side and DUPONT on the other. Also, the color is strange....it's kind of a moldy peach color with some off-white splotches throughout. But there's no imprint of the dose! Google image searches have proved uneventful.

Could the pills have been a different color back when they were made, and changed color over time? Was there a time when *Percocet brand (oxycodone/apap) simply didn't imprint the dose and/or used a different color scheme for their pills? It seems unlikely given the source, but could they be counterfit? If they are, they sure as hell look like brand-Percocet to Swim and his cat!

I'm sure some swimmers out there have come into pretty old med by whatever means, anyone with input here? Thanks!