Found this repeating holo pattern on these ex cards. Very interesting and never knew cards could have the same pattern like this and thought you guys might enjoy it as well.
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Oh wow that’s really cool to see, and yeah not what you’d expect really 
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Holo patterns repeat. You just need the same pokemon to line up. This is from my friend a while back. Almost lined up just a tiny bit out. Can’t rely on holos being like fingerprints lol.
If I had the numbers I could work out the probability. The smaller the repeating pattern and the bigger the print run the more likely it is to get exact matches.
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So in this case you actually can use the holo pattern to uniquely identify both copies
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Hardly any cosmos sheets produced and almost an exact match. Scale this up and it’s a certainty. Yes you can tell these 2 apart. The fact that holo patterns repeat and are not random is the biggest revelation which means with the dimensions of the repeating pattern size and the holo print run numbers I can work out how many would repeat as everything’s finite.
This is very cool to actually see! =)
Unlike DNA and fingerprints, holo patterns MUST physically repeat, so there is a much larger possibility that two cards might have near identical positioning. The other thing to remember, as far as cards being identified by holo pattern is that someone somewhere owns the card that is the stock image online. It was a card at some point that was scanned and posted, and as such, it does exist… who knows where it ended up.
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Purchased a small Ex Power Keeper collection recently and my guess is these 2 cards came from the same sheet as it looks like they also have repeating holo patterns very similar to each other.
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I like seeing these almost identical holo patterns. People always say it’s how you can tell a card apart. Like a fingerprint buts it’s not. There will be many cards out there where the holo is so close that you won’t be able to see a difference basic math dictates it. It’s just as cool on a different pokemon than on the same pokemon.
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