This one’s interesting - a few weeks ago I came across a PSA 9 Korean Shining Legends Mew on eBay and I had to do a double take! We all know PSA only grades base set Korean, so I messaged the seller to ask where they’d bought it from. I got a reply back saying it was purchased at a ‘high-end auction’ and that they weren’t aware of PSA not grading this set.
So, what do you think?! Did PSA make a mistake and grade it thinking it’s Japanese? I guess that would make it quite a rare easter egg. Or did someone, somehow, swap out the Japanese Mew for a Korean one?
Just a card that slipped through I´d assume, there´s multiple graded german, french and other foreign post base set cards graded by PSA that flew under the radar somehow
PSA have a bit of a reputation for mislabelling things.
That said, in the case of this Mew it could simply be that the submitter claimed it was Japanese and PSA just rolled with it - however it’s not exactly hard to tell when something is in Japanese vs. Korean. PSA have a habit of not really doing much due diligence.
PSA started grading foreign cards from after the DP era, so that Korean Shining Mew is not a mistake. I’ve heard this directly from a PSA employee. (The German Rayquaza GS from a few years back was a mistake, though.)
The PSA employee I spoke with said they would grade non-English/non-Japanese from after the DP era from now on, but it would be best to ask first for niche languages like Russian or Indonesian for example. She said French and other European languages wouldn’t be a problem to send in, though.
I was curious about this and I think I found the source. The Card-Dex on Pokemon.com is available in a number of languages but only after the DP era. I bet thats what the rep means about “sources have become available”
