Hey everyone, honestly so happy I re stumbled on efour after taking a long break from the hobby. Its crazy to see the community going strong again, and hence my bank account suffering, but its all worth it.
Now to my question, recently I had sent off a large number of japanese gym 2 cards to be PSA’d, and had gotten back a PSA 10 Arcanine that I had labeled as the normal Gym Series label. However upon inspecting the card, it was given the description of Guren Town which would lead me to think it was actually from an old gym deck. I noticed last night, it has no rarity mark as well, and others I have found on Ebay with normal descriptions on their PSA slabs have a rarity mark and are labeled normal Gym Series. With this description and grade, its a POP 1. I just want to make sure its an accurate POP 1 and not an error.
Upon searching for others on Ebay, I found a PSA 9 version with a no rarity that was labeled as a normal Gym Series. Was just curious if I could have some insight from professors on here, I have a few POP 1’s in my possession so its not a big deal if it was just an error, however would love to add another!
Thanks for the help, Happy to be back on the forums!
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First picture- No Rarity, normal description
Second picture- Rarity, normal description
Third Picture- No rarity, guren town description, POP 1
Probably a mistake on PSA’s part. As far as I know, the only thing differentiating these cards is a rarity symbol, those from the set have them and those from the deck don’t. As such, there could be many from the deck out there that have been labeled as being from the set. It’s pretty much impossible to get an exact population number then.
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Welcome back! 
In relation to your question, the term “no rarity” is primarily in reference to the japanese base set. Gym series cards without rarity symbol were from the decks, as this is easily verified. Where the Base set has yet to be verified (no opening videos of the cards from decks), which is why there is more of a market for NR base.
There currently isn’t a market for the non-base cards without rarity symbols. Therefor I don’t know if the pop report will ever correctly reflect the distinction. I know I personally have 5-7 No symbol gym cards from decks that were labelled as standard gym cards.
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Perfect explanation, thank you Scott and FS tcg, it was an odd circumstance and I am glad you two could answer very quickly. Its good to be back!
IMO:
I guess you could almost say its a theme deck exclusive holo mark/nonmark, such as some of the shatter holo’s from today’s sets, but that is even stretching it as well. It’s still odd that they had that description noted in the system at PSA when I had specifically not entered in that description when I sent the cards in. I would imagine it would make sense to have a certain section within PSA’s registry where specific gym cards are delineated into both non gym exclusive or gym deck exclusive grades, seeing as it is confirmed those are gym decks exclusive, however if there has been multiple times cards have not been sorted correctly in the past, its far from having that reworked, but I digress. I have a couple decks sealed, seeing as they go for a low price as of now, will send in a few and see what PSA will set their descriptions at.
As of now, I will have a nice spot in my collection for another PSA error card haha.
Let me know your thoughts,
