After 3 years this is a pretty ridiculous bump, but this is the only thread I could find on E4 about serial code variants. Thanks to a recent post by @lucid , these serial numbers have been bought to my attention. I had absolutely no idea there were differences, but I’ve already found one Pichu card which has 2 variants which isn’t mentioned in this thread:
Card
Variant 1
Variant 2
Variant 3
● Pichu - EX Emerald (59/106) - EX Emerald stamp
BSW-3XN-WTR
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● Pichu - EX Emerald (59/106)
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BSW-3XN-JCR
BSW-3XN-CUU
● Pichu - EX Emerald (59/106) - Nintendo World stamp
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BSW-3XN-JCR
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It’s interesting here that the card with the EX Emerald stamp has a different serial number to the regular card. In the EX Holon Phantoms and EX Power Keepers sets, both the stamped and unstamped cards have the same serial number.
Excluding the above EX Emerald cards, this is what I’ve identified so far from English sets:
Card
Serial Code
★ Pichu - EX Sandstorm (20/100)
M2G-B0E-1HC
★ Pichu - EX Sandstorm (20/100) - Reverse
M2G-B0E-1HC
● Pichu Bros - POP Series 3 (16/17)
RV7-5UH-W7B
● Pichu - EX Holon Phantoms (76/110)
0AC-3AY-0U3
● Pichu - EX Holon Phantoms (76/110) - EX Holon Phantoms stamp
0AC-3AY-0U3
★ Pichu - EX Power Keepers (21/108)
Q3V-H00-N8F
★ Pichu - EX Power Keepers (21/108) - EX Power Keepers stamp
Q3V-H00-N8F
I can’t find any variations on any of these cards from my own collection (I have quite a few duplicates) nor from Googling the cards and looking at various images. I’m really keen to know if any other variants exist. The variants from the EX Emerald set are very obvious, with about 50% of the cards I looked at having different serial numbers. Despite being common, I can’t find any variants from the EX Holon Phantoms set at all.
I had to refresh my memory, but from the first post, it shows only the sets that have variations, so it appears Holon Phantoms has no differences. Interesting information regarding the pichu variants for Emerald. I’m not sure if anyone is keeping up with this list anymore, but it’s clear now it needs some work yet. The English list is nearly complete, but we have very little for Japanese and all other languages. This is a lot of hard work, so I’m not sure anyone is up to the task right now haha
I’m bumping this again to ask: does anyone know which Japanese sets this applies to? I know I saw a post in someone’s Eevee collection thread not too long back which I think featured four of the same Japanese card with different serial codes.
I’m so far unaware of any Japanese Pichu cards which are affected by this.
I can only speak to the sets for which eevee belongs as that is the beginning and end of my knowledge. The only set that I know of that has different Japanese codes is golden sky silvery ocean. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were more sets but that’s the only one with eevee.
Ugh, that thread of mine is so outdated… I’ve already put it on my TODO list last week to update and complete it soon, but due to some tight deadlines at work (requiring me to work 150% instead of 100%), and because I’m also still working on my collecting catalog (not to mentioned the 50+ new Pikachu releases the past two months I have to keep track of with purchases), I didn’t have the time to do so yet.
But don’t worry, I will do so as soon as I have time. Then we’ll have one overview of ALL sets in ALL languages, including the amount of codes for the EX era sets.
But to answer your concern about Pichu, @pichufan: none. There are four EX era Pichus: EX sandstorm; EX Emerald; EX Holon Phantoms; and EX Power Keepers. The EX Emerald Pichu is a promo in Japanese, so no different codes. The Miracle of the Desert (EX Sandstorm) and World Champions Pack (EX Power Keepers) Pichu cards are both Rares, so will only have a single code regardless of language. And the Holon Phantoms set (EX Holon Phantoms) only contained a single code in Japanese (as well as in English and other languages).
Does anyone know how these work for non-English cards?
I’ve picked up several German and Italian Pichu cards from EX Emerald and all have had a prefix ending “JCR”, but the only Portuguese copy I’ve tracked down so far has a prefix ending “B31”:
Does anyone know if all 3 (or 4 in some cases) serial code variants exist in French, German, Italian and Portuguese?
All English codes also apply to German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese (if a set is released in this language). The only exception for this rule I’ve been able to find are EX Emerald Uncommons, for which only a single code is available in English, but two codes in German, French, Italian, and Portuguese. And Japanese codes are also different of course, with Commons having four unique codes and Uncommons two.
I can confirm EX Emerald has all three Common codes in English, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese though, since I own all of them for the Pikachu:
I’ve already put it on my TODO list last week to update and complete it soon, but due to some tight deadlines at work (requiring me to work 150% instead of 100%), and because I’m also still working on my collecting catalog (not to mentioned the 50+ new Pikachu releases the past two months I have to keep track of with purchases), I didn’t have the time to do so yet.
