Charizard CD promo 1998 or 1999

General Question
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I have this card but I can’t tell the difference between the 98 cards and the 99. Help please :slight_smile:

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If you’re asking what the difference is between the Please Trade campaign Charizard and the CD version Charizard there is none, they are both identical cards and indistinguishable from one another. Hope this helps.

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Would have to ask the person you got it from to see if it came with the CD promo

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Bought it like 6 years ago and can’t find it on any purchase history so guess I’ll never know
Main reason I wanted to know was because I’ve started using the Collectr app and it seems to make a difference

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Well in this case you can just mark the card with the higher value. We won’t tell anyone :wink:

But unfortunately, the cards just seem to be indistinguishable from each other. Probably they used extra cards but just renamed the promo schemes to cater to different people.

Cheers!

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Although @Frosty.Puppy and @mrbubbles already answered your question: the Charizard cards are indistinguishable. I wanted to add this for completeness of all CD promo cards for anyone else coming across this thread:

CD promo cards which cannot be distinguished unfortunately:

  • Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise [non-glossy holo]: All three released in both the Trade Please campaign and CD
  • Arcanine [non-glossy non-holo]: Released as both a Toyota auto campaign promo in October 1997 and as CD promo
  • Cool Porygon/Hungry Snorlax [non-glossy holo]: Both released in the Nintendo 64 ad campaign of December 1997 and as CD promo

CD promo cards which can be distinguished:

  • Pikachu: This card looks similar as the English Shadowless yellow cheeks Base Set Pikachu. The way to distinguish the English Base Set from this Japanese CD Promo version is with a flashlight test. The CD Promo is printed on Japanese cardboard, which is ever so slightly thinner than the cardboard used for English Pokémon TCG cards. I also mention this in my Base Pikachu artwork variations article.
  • Computer Error: there are three versions of this card released in Japanese: January 1998 CoroCoro Comic insert; Kamex Mega Battle regional tournament participants prize; Pokémon Best Song Collection CD. The Kamex Mega Battle version has a white-shadowed ‘R’ as symbol, and the other two have red-shadowed 'R’s as symbol. See below at glossy promos on how to distinguish the other two with red-shadowed ‘R’.
  • Super Energy Retrieval: there are four versions of this card released in Japanese: April 1997 Pocket Monsters Fan Club insert; Pokémon Best Collection CD promo; inside the Gold, Silver, to a New World… set (Neo Genesis in English); unknown release that was used for photos in books (see this thread). The first two are glossy with the same text (see below at glossy promos on how to distinguish them from one another). The other two versions are both non-glossy and also have different texts (so three different text versions), as can be seen in the picture of the linked thread.
  • Glossy promos (Super Energy Retrieval; Computer Error; Mewtwo; Mew): Both the Mew and Mewtwo were included both in the 7th Next Generation World Hobby Fair vending sheet #00 of December 1997, as well as the Pokémon Song Best Collection CD of January 1999. How to distinguish these four earlier released glossy promos from the Pokémon Song Best Collection CD promos is like this:

Greetz,
Quuador

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