Gold star charizard real or fake

[decoypalmette]

Base set fakes (especially Charizord) seem particularly plentiful. Then probably Gold Stars, Neo Shinings and XY promos/mega

I made a little article here, If it could be useful

Overview of the most common vintage fakes flooding the market

The purpose of this thread is to serve as a resource for beginners concerned about the authenticity of a card. Feel free to use it as a small database to train your eyes. Og “Rainbow cosmo” foils Very abundant but fairly easy to recognize, especially when handling them in person: in this case the holo pattern is totally wrong and just copy-pasted from a scan. The fakers applied a generic rainbow foil on top of that, but as you can see, it’s not that good. Text, artwork and layout elements are…