Hey all -
Just had a super random question. I acquired this card recently and the BGS label for the 1996 Base No Rarity Venusaur Reads "NO RARITY/ WRONG NUMBER. What I am having a hard time understanding is why this has been labeled this way, when others being labeled just “NO RARITY” (same number bottom right or whatever the case is).
Reason I ask is because when I pull the pop report for this card through Beckett there are only 4 total graded with mine having the highest grade (7.5 (Corners 7.5, Edges 8, Surface 7.5, and Centering 9.5))
Am I missing something ?
All no rarity Venusaur and Raichu cards have the wrong number.
Sometimes the grading companies will make duplicate labels for the same type of card, because the one doing the data entry isn’t aware of the pre-existing card label.
Or perhaps there was an actual decision for future cards to have the error included, but the old population was already graded so that entry remains as legacy.
In this case one entry is NO RARITY
and the 2nd entry is NO RARITY/WRONG #
and they represent the same card so you would combine the two populations (assumption that all cards are correctly graded).
adding to what @assassin5757 has noted:
No rarity Venusaur #68 shares the same number as Machamp
No rarity Raichu #25 shares the same number as Pikachu
