Anyone familiar with this Japanese Pokemon Jungle set Flareon? It’s described as an error card and appears to have the entire card holo effect like the Shining Mew card. Could it be a fake?
It looks like it could be a fake.
right next to a no-rarity Ninetales too haha
I was actually thinking it could be an early printing of the Jungle Set such like the 1st printing of the base set no rarities. Just thought it was interesting to see this Flareon. The seller also has a Venomoth with the same holo pattern.
This — and others like it — are fakes.
They were originally sold by vendors at street festivals in Japan. You could buy a pack of 30 or so cards for about 500 yen, and each card would have this holofoil treatment.
The kids who bought them knew they were getting fake cards, but they didn’t care because they were buying them for gameplay, not for collecting.
thanks for the info! Now that I think about it, I do recall seeing similar types of fakes in some of the shops (mostly card shops in Chinatown and the vendors at the local flea market) here in Hawaii as a kid.
They should have done that foil treatment randomly as a secret rare or something. Imagine the collectability!