I also wanted to ask about this Charizard as well. There is a thin silver, diagonal stripe across the face of the card. Besides the stripe, it is in very good condition, PSA 9ish mayyybe PSA 8 if they’re being especially harsh.
This was bought from an error collector/seller (although he didn’t have any others with this type of error), which makes me a bit warier of its authenticity compared to the above Charizard. But if you’ve ever seen one like it and/or know whether it’s a legitimate factory error, I’d be interested to hear!
I swear I have seen something like this before, maybe even on here but I can’t find it. Seems to be a white oval ink spot behind the word “swimming”. Anyone know if this is an error or a random ink issue. The card isn’t damaged beyond that to make me think its just wear because its also pretty clearly behind the printed text
Fantastic information well compiled, great thread thanks!
Just wanted to say that the “Crown Royale 2001 Scizor Black Star promo Miscut (French)” is not actually French but Italian as far as I can tell!
French and German cards are the only Roman alphabet WOTC cards that have been given their own names to all Pokemons, whereas Italian/Spanish for example used the English names. On this instance, “Cizayox” is the name of Scyther’s evolution in French (see here for a link to what the French card looks like).
There are quite a few interesting misprints for French WOTC cards as mentionned previously, if this guide requires extensions, I would be happy to help!
If you would like to assist with an expanded error guide for non-English (WotC era I assume?) I think that would be great and very welcomed! @quuador mentioned as such as well. I simply don’t have the free time I had expected. The guide will have to be reformatted soon anyway as the first page is becoming difficult to navigate with so many images opened. The Scizor and MTG misprints will be moved over to that section.
I think this is likely just a scratch caused by anything sharp that could come into contact with a sheet, and there are a large number of possibilities for that to happen.
The Dark Charizard is a bit more intriguing as it’s a problem deep in the foil layer. It looks to me like the defect occurred on the sheet before ink was applied. I’m thinking either a seam or fold in that layer. Neat!
Hey guys! New member here, made an account for this thread, really. When going through my old collection of the first 5 series’, I found a few error cards myself (a couple of which I have questions about actually, but the fun stuff first). The rarest one I have seems to be this 1st Edition Haunter Halo one. It’s not the more common blue ink smudge, and I wouldn’t call it the much less common “cigar error” myself, as that’s usually categorized as having the two thick yellow lines. Anyway, here it is:
The only other picture I’ve seen on the internet of this particular error is in this listing from March 2019, where it’s also referred to as a “cigar error”:
What would you guys call it? And has anyone else ever seen one of these? I’m trying to get an idea of it’s rarity, considering the scarcity of images available. I spent a good amount of time searching several sites for any pictures or listings of this error and came up with only one link. Well, at least there are a few more shots now!
Edit: Totally forgot to thank you @jkanly, for putting this list together, good job!
@thepubening Welcome and I’m so glad to hear that the guide was helpful!
Out of the ink error cards the yellow ink smear Haunter is one of the toughest errors to find. There are sales recently (late 2020) in excess of $1500 for a copy with an unusually large area coverage of the ink smear. As you can imagine the card wouldn’t be fetching that price if a copy was easy to find, and also the severity of the error comes into consideration. Your copy has a smaller coverage of the ink defect when compared with other examples.
The yellow ink smear Haunter and Hitmonlee are both frequently called a “cigar error” even though they have no relation to the “Cigar” Hitmonlee. Ironically on the topic of monickers the original “Cigar Hitmonlee” has no relation to a cigar, since its defect was created by a scrap of loose holofoil that was mistaken as being from a cigar wrapper. For the copies we’re discussing, “Yellow ink smear” seems to be the most accurate title to me:)
Curious about the fading on this unlimited Ninetales from base set. It seems all black text is faded. I have a normal one for comparison. I haven’t seen another one like this and was wondering if there are other examples.
Now that I see the grey text Ninetales on the previous page, it reminds me of a similar more commonly found error on Team Rocket Holofoil Rares that isn’t included in the list yet: www.elitefourum.com/t/are-theses-cards-missprint/24848/1
The solid black layer they apply during the printing process after the KCYM layer is basically missing.
Thank you for this article. It was very helpful. Question for you – have you come into contact with any printing errors related to Poliwrath cards? I’ve seen a card with an extended top border and a very slim bottom border. Have you seen any other errors similar to this? Perhaps it’s not specific to Poliwrath?
Great article! This is a very thorough overview of the errors and I reference it frequently in my WOTC Pokémon collecting.
I have a question about an error not mentioned.
I have 3 psychic energy cards with a white circle symbol on the back. It could be ink bleed from the front but all three are so similar I wanted to see if you have come across cards with this misprint before.
They are shown here:
