The king is in the house! Nidoking, that is. I’ve seen ONE person list this one on ebay as an error but it’s not well documented ANYWHERE. I’ve checked the - English Base Set Master Misprint Guide - Articles - Elite Fourum English Base Set Master Misprint Guide - #34 by TwentyFour7 - Articles - Elite Fourum and other areas. So here it is: a number of copies of Unlimited Nidoking 11/102 have a black printer hickey on top of the “E” in “STAGE 2” of the evolution box.
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What is this bottom wartortle?
It’s a shadowless. I didn’t have a correct version of the Unlimited in hand but I know they’re out there because I’ve seen countless correct versions listed. Yeah the shadows and saturation are slightly different but the focus is the eyes.
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Dif magenta layer
@Classyus lmk if you find another, would be interested to examine these
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Another zombie squirtle?
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Yeah, I’d like to put eyes on one
I’ve seen something similar on Other print runs
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Since Kadabras are worth $50k now, I checked mine. It looks like almost all have an interesting repeating red error on the art box.
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I see. It’s an uncorrected error or even a design change that happened sometime at the beginning of unlimited.
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This isn’t an error, it’s just the way they cut the art for the 1st edition/shadowless card. It’s another one of the red circles behind Kadabra. You can see it better on an unlimited copy:
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A friend made me aware of this one. Most people dont really care about the back of their cards because most of the time they’re all the same! But sometimes the same card will have a repeating error on the BACK! Such is the case with the unlimited base set Venusaur 15/102. Some have a repeating heart-shaped yellow hickey in the pokeball on the back.
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Still worth $500k
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This is 10000% incorrect, The backs are very different, people just dont know what theyre looking at or how to see it.
You can look at 2 cards next to each other and they may look the same but only half may actually be printed the same.
for reference, i know i post these all the time but these backs are only printed with similar black and yellow plates
Magenta and cyan are completely different. Since cyan and magenta probably take up about 90% of the back, can almost make the argument that they’re completely different and eyes just cant see it. Offset printing jedi mind tricks.
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To be fair MOST collectors and sellers don’t look at cards under the microscope like you and I do. So their perceptions conclude that the backs are the same even though sometimes the shades look darker, lighter have slightly different hues, or registration errors. To MOST people the backs are the same boring, uninteresting thing.
True, that’s why they’re missing out
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Okay, as promised, I’m diving into the insane error iceberg that is the Celebrations variation of SWSH039 (the sequin holo). I’ve chosen to introduce a new format when discussing with a single card that has multiple repeating/moving errors. An error with a recognizeable shape and color, whether it repeats in the same spot or moves around, will be referred to as an archetype. There is a multitude of arcetypes affecting this card. We’ll start with obvious ones and then present the obscure ones.
The Red Cluster Archetype:
The red cluster archetype is a repeating error appears in the same place every time from what I’ve seen. It appears just under the energy cost of Pika Bolt.
The Red Siblings Archetype:
A repeating error where both red dots appear in the same spots on multiple cards. The yellow hickey on the neck is a rarer variant.
The Red Bean Archetype:
This is a repeating error with multiple cards having the same shaped hickey in the same spot. I have seen cards where this archetype shape is in a different location so it is a traveling archetype.
The Butt Pimple Archetype:
Many copies, just like people, have this very same error in the same spot.
The Red Claw Archetype:
A red hickey kind of shaped like one of Charizard’s claws travels across the bottom of the card but appears in the same or similar spots in many copies.
The Pika Poop archetype:
A black dot that appears in the holo just behind the first corner of pikachu’s tail is found on MANY copies. The thing that makes this archetype so interesting is that it often appears with other archetypes. The first picture shows the Pika Poop dot and red hickey on the lower right border.
The Cyan Spot archetype:
The cyan spot changes shape while in the same spot and moves around. The above pictures are only two examples where the first can appear as a “D” or a “B” and the second apears on the winking eye. Both are repeating in location but they are the same archetype; the spot moves around. I’ve got others where the cyan spot is in the top portion of the card so these aren’t the only locations for this archetype. As you can see, a variant of the red rice archetype is present for the wink location on this copy but another copy I have has no red hickeys.
The Tear of Blood archetype:
This one repeats with a red mark on the left corner on the winking eye. It is usually different colors from red to yellow.
The Belly Dot:
A repeating error where a red hickey appears on the exact same spot of the belly in many copies.
The Black Triangle archetype:
Most copies of this archetype have the black triangle on the pokeball in the same place. It is often accompanied by a holo treatment hickey just above it in the same holo orb and same postion in that orb. The triangle does appear in other locations as shown in picture 2 above.
The White Cowry archetype:
A white hickey shaped like a cowry shell repeats on a number of copies in the same location.
The Flipflop Drop archetype:
There’s a repeating hickey that kinda flips the white of the border and the yellow of the background under the “O” in “NO.”. It is always located in this spot from what I have seen.
Pimple Chin:
It happens. It is repeating.
The Yellow Petals:
Two yellow hickeys in the holo to the right of pikachu’s face are circled in red. They appear with the Pika Poop archetype in this example but the two archetypes do not always appear together.
Dew Drops:
These are holo treatment hickeys and they have a shape like a droplet. They appear in different locations in the holo foil.
The Hidden Holo:
The hidden holo archetype is the result of a large hickey that resulted in the absence of the white backing layer. It’s very hard to find on listings due to the fact that the angle of the light must be just right to see it. This archetype does move around the card. I have two and one of them has the error in the bottom right corner of the card.
In summary the above examples are archetypes, which means they are errors that appear on multiple copies and many in the same exact spot. Multiple may appear on the same copy if you are lucky. I have a number of copies that don’t fit these archetypes but they seem to be just random red hickeys they do not conform to any sort of pattern or shape. I have one or two more that i might add as archetypes later. Thank you!
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Nice error names 
The hidden holo one is pretty neat!
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Thanks! It took a minute 
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