Has a non holo that was errorly holo ever surfaced?

We barely have any Holo errors with Pokémon in general tbh. Apart from the non-Holo Dark Dragonite error, there is the Cosmos Holofoil versions of unlimited Fossil cards and the Holofoil Neo Revelations errors. Or partially missing holofoil at certain parts, like the energy symbol circles on EX Dragon Magnemite or Legendary Collection Exeggcute Reverse Holos, or the evolution box for Fossil Zapdos. But cards which were accidentally printed in Holofoil instead of non-Holo I’ve never heard of.

For Yu-Gi-Oh cards I have seen it a few times, a card being printed as Holofoil even though it was supposed to be a non-holo (don’t really have any examples, but I remember seeing some on eBay). But errors are much more common in Yu-Gi-Oh than Pokémon in my experience (although miscut/OC cards happen A LOT less in Yu-Gi-Oh than Pokémon, though). In Yu-Gi-Oh it’s more common to have the same case as Dark Dragonite: a card that was supposed to be Holofoil being non-Holo instead. I will mention those errors in my upcoming Yu-Gi-Oh rarity article soon (after all incoming cards have arrived). In the case of Yu-Gi-Oh, the names are usually still Holofoil though, despite the missing holofoil in the artwork - making them an unique misprinted rarity for my collection (unlike some cards I know to be printed as Secret Rare instead of Super Rare or something like that, where the misprinted card is still a normal rarity).
For those familiar with Yu-Gi-Oh rarities, here some examples of cards I own in my collection and will show in my upcoming article: Ultra Rares without holofoil image (so Common with golden name); Secret Rares without holofoil image (so Common with mirror-silver name); Secret Rare image with Ultra Rare name; Gold Rare with silver Rare name; Prismatic Secret Rare with golden Ultra Rare name; Reversed Secret Rares (top-left to bottom-right instead of top-right to bottom-left holofoil pattern); etc. etc.

Although I’d love to see it, I doubt it exists for Pokémon cards. Would be fun to see an Pokémon Ultra/Secret Rare as Reverse Holo or a regular Common with Holofoil artwork in a new set (so not the EX era), but I don’t really see it happen anytime soon based on the lack of these kind of errors in the past 20+ years tbh.

Greetz,
Quuador

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