Congrats man!
Myself, I’m currently at this point of your story:
Welp!!!
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Congrats! I’m glad your purchase worked out! My international buy resulted in a card with an indent so I’m glad it can work out for someone that deserves it!
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Many many congratulations to you both @stagecoach and @thymeee . Really happy for you guys. This is such a positive and wholesome story where both of you could work out something and have trust to be able to go through with it. Thymeee welcome to the Pearl Gang my friend.
Thanks a lot for sharing!
Much love. Cheers!
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The rare situation where a trade makes sense 
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Well done amigo. Absolutely perfect card, so amazing that you have one. It’s a dream card by the best artist ever. The don. This is wonderful my friend!
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Love this! Thanks for sharing Stagecoach - congrats to you both!!!
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Great story, and happy to see both you and thymeee were able to trade for your respective desired cards! Hearing stories like this really make it worth getting involved in the community 
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Stories like this are great! Thanks for sharing and congrats to you both!
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Such a fun read thank you for sharing and congrats to both of you
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I could not have written it better myself, you perfectly told the story and all of the emotions involved. I want to thank you so much for the opportunity and the experience. I will also never forget this awesome trade! Thanks so much!
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Amazing story, amazing hunt & an amazing trade to finish it all off.
Huge congrats to both sides of the trade!
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That was beautiful and I got chills reading it. Almost brought a tear to my eye.
Thanks for sharing!
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This thread was a great read!! I love these types of stories. I hope to be successful in my journey as I’ve been communicating with all sorts of cool people and rude people. But I couldn’t help smile reading the final update. I was picturing it all in my mind as your writing skills are top notch. Definitely happy to read about your journey!
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So wait, which one is more rare, the one on the right, or the left?
Both are very rare, but the one on the left is probably slightly rarer and also one I’m still missing in my Pikachu collection. We know the one on the right was limited to just 2000 copies back in 1998. And there isn’t much known yet about the one on the left, except that it was used as Pokémon-card example in some old magazines from CoroCoro and alike. It’s plausible it’s a Sample card that wasn’t intended to be released to the public, but it’s also possible it comes from an obscure release we simply don’t know about yet. It wasn’t until early/mid-2020 that the information about the Glossy Keiji Kinebuchi glossy Pikachu came to light to begin with, even though it was 22 years old at that point, so who knows what info might emerge for this other Glossy Keiji Kinebuchi release with shifted artwork over time. 
Greetz,
Quuador
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