Topps anniversary special box

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Hello,

I would like to know if anyone has any info about the topps pokemon cards in the anniversary box.

A year or two ago, topps released some kind of anniversary box that contained a “best of” of all the things they ever printed, and had a chance to contain special “reprints” of topps cards, with a small chance of topps pokemon cards among other things.

The only video I ever saw about any of those was a short from pokemon radar who graded a clefable with CGC at a convention. I can’t find anything else about them, no info, google doesn’t have anything, heck I can’t even find the box it came from anymore (pokemon radar also did an opening of one of these boxes, but that video and the short have both been deleted since).

Can anyone provide any info about them? Has anyone seen any of them other than that clefable? I probably sound insane but I swear those are a thing.

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@PokemonRadar?

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I think what you are referring to is the 75th anniversary topps box released in 2013 i believe. It contains 100 cards from all sorts of different sets but alas no pokemon.

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These were just posted about here

The boxes are about ~600 on ebay right now. So if you’re feeling lucky maybe your stamped card is a pokemon topps common

Each box of 75th Anniversary cards contains 4 guaranteed hits!

  • Autographs (3 per box): Over 24 different pop culture icons from iconic Topps card sets
  • Stamped Originals (1 per box): Original trading cards, foil-stamped with Topps 75th logo
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Its nice to be wrong lol. There was mention of buyback where they bought old cards and stamped them this must be that. Couldnt find any images to confirm so this is brilliant.

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here’s the checklist: 2013 Topps 75th Anniversary Trading Cards Checklist, Set Info, Boxes

and although Pokemon isn’t part of the official set, it makes sense that they might be available as the Topps buyback.

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Wow that’s so cool! I didn’t realise they were buybacks, thanks everyone for the great info!

It’s really difficult to find any info on these, I wonder if any other copies got graded beside the Clefable I mentionned, and if they are identified on the label as such.

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Any chance you could post the link to that video short of the clefable? Thanks.

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Sadly it got deleted. Maybe if pokemon radar himself sees this post he can share an image/video of the card or the original short if he still has it.

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Would be great if he did. :slight_smile:

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Here is a picture of all of mine :slight_smile: they are currently on their way to PSA as I wanted to get a nice label on them.

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Here is a sumarry of all the Informations about the '2013 TOPPS 75th anniversary" I have acquired while doing my Investigation/Research for my TOPPS Collector Guide :

TOPPS 75 Anniversary Buyback Card :

  • Informations :

    • Set List : Topps 75th Anniversary
      • Standard Set feature highlights from 100 non-sports card sets published in the Company’s first 75 years.
    • Total Card in Set 100
      • All the Standard Cards are silver stamped
      • Different Parallel
        • Rainbow foil
        • Diamond version limited to 75 copies per card
          • Odds 1:33
        • Modern gloss Limited to 10 copies per card
          • Odds 1:244
        • Printing Plates. (CMYB) Limited to 1 Per Card
          • Odds 1:610
    • Mini Card
      • Odds 1:6
    • 8 Test Cards
      • Odds 1:24
    • 22 Autograph
      • Parallel
        • Rainbow limited to 150 copies per card
          • Odds 1:71
        • Diamond versions limited to 75 copies per card
          • Odds 1:147
        • Buybacks stamped with a Topps 75 logo
          • N/A
    • Buyback Cards
      • Card have been “Buy Back” by TOPPS and then Gold Stamped.
        • They are different from Standard Cards as Gold Stamped instead of Silver Stamped.
      • Odds 1:17
    • Card BuyBack Set
      • More than 104 Set Confirmed
      • More than 1240 Cards Confirmed

  • Buyback Card Info & More Interesting Information that I have investigate Myself:

    • Number of Card in Set:
      • 100 Cards in Set
    • Number of Printing Plate Produced:
      • 1:1 Ratio – Confirmed on Back of Each Printing Plate Card
      • There is 4 Printing plate per Cards because TOPPS use (CMYK) Printer
        • 4 Printing Plate Per Card x 100 Cards in the set
        • 400 Printing Plate Cards
    • Printing Plate Card Pull Rate:
      • Odd of pulling a printing is 1/610 pack as mentioned on Back on Pack Wrapper
      • 1/610
    • Number of Packs Produced:
      • Total Number of Pack Produced / Number of Pack with Printing Plates = Odd Per Pack
        • X/400 = 610 => X = 610*400 = 244000
        • 244000 Pack Produced
    • Number of Box Produced:
      • There is 24 Pack per Box
        • 244000 Packs Produced
        • 244000/24 = 10166 Box Produced
    • Number of BuyBack Cards Produced
      • The Odds Of a Stamped BuyBack Card is 1:17 Pack as mentioned on back of wrapper
        • 244000/17 = 14376 Buyback Cards
        • 14376 Buyback Cards Produced

  • I have confirmed that they have produced some cards for the following TOPPS Pokémon Trading Cards Set:

    • Series 1 – NonFoil - Blue Logo - English(US)
    • Series 1 – SilverFoil - Blue Logo
    • Series 3 – NonFoil
    • Series 3 – SilverFoil
    • First Movie – NonFoil - Black Logo
    • First Movie – SilverFoil - Black Logo - Sand Paper Finish
    • They might have produced other Pokémon set and other Parallel(Rainbow-Foil) or Variation, Please let me know if you have info information on others set with 75th Anniversary Logo.

  • All the 2013 TOPPS Pokemon Buyback Cards that I have confirmed so far :

    • First Movie - NonFoil - BlackLogo:
      • SetList (Mike → mthursty)
      • #09 Ash And Company (Mike → Stuart)
      • #10 Battle Before Lunch (Mike → Stuart)
      • #18 Temple of Mewtho (Mike → Stuart → Steve)
      • #20 The Best of the Best (arealghostbuster → mthursty)
      • #20 The Best of the Best (Mike → Stuart)
      • #33 Psychic Showdown (Mike → Stuart)
      • #43 Don’t Cry, Togepi! (Mike → Stuart)
      • #48 Racing Cheek To Cheek (niner → Stuart)
      • E1 (Bulbasaur) (arealghostbuster → mthursty)
    • First Movie - SilverFoil - DebossedWithDot - BlackLogo:
      • #02 Awakening (Mike → mthursty)
      • #55 Success (Mike → Stuart)
      • E9 (Blastoise) (Tbd → Casual)
    • Series 1 - NonFoil - BlueLogo - English(US):
      • #05 Charmeleon (TBD → Casual)
      • #13 Weedle (Mike → TBD)
      • #36 Clefable (Mike → TBD)
      • #74 Geodude (Mike → Stuart)
      • #70 Weepingbell (TBD → joponnes)
      • #72 Tentacool (Mike → Stuart)
      • #45 Vileplume (arealghostbuster → mthursty)
      • #50 Diglett (arealghostbuster → mthursty)
    • Series 1 - SilverFoil - BlueLogo - (TBDLanguage) :
      • #36 Clefary (arealghostbuster → PokeRadar)
    • Series 3 - NonFoil :
      • PO3(Pikachu Left Face) (Mike ->TBD)
    • Series 3 - SilverFoil:
      • HV6 (Pikachu) (Mike → mthursty)
    • Please let me know if you know or have a card not on this list, or are the current owner of a card on this list.
    • Image of All the Pokemon Buyback Cards
      • If you have better picture or missing picture of the back or front of those card please sent them to me and I will add them to on my dropbox and website.

  • I have confirmed 24 Pokemon Buyback cards so far but the following question remains :

    • Have they produce all the cards for each set ?
      • I do have confirmed the complete set for 2 different set (Batman & Quite Possibly Battlestar Galactica)
    • Where are all those Pokemon BuyBack Cards ?

  • I have confirmed that duplicate can Exist

    • 2 Different Card From Batman:
      • 1989 O-Pee-Chee Batman Movie #10 D.A. Harvey Dent
      • 1989 O-Pee-Chee Batman Movie #72 No! No! I’m Melting!!
    • I have Confirmed one duplicate for the pokemon set : “TOPPS Pokemon Trading Cards - First Movie - NonFoil - BlackLogo - #20 The Best of the Best” is a duplicate.

  • My Last Question is for @PokemonRadar I tried to contact you a while ago about those cards as you have mentioned that you have some of them in a comment.

    • Please let me know if you have any of them to help me update my list and knowledge.

  • References :

Can provide any other ref or access to my dropbox if anyone need it :slight_smile:
Have an awesome day.
Daniel Girard Bolduc

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There have been two threads with similar discussion. I’d assume you have read this one but if not:

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Thanks @mthursty,

I decided to update my comment to regroup all the information I had at the same place:

  • I added a complete list of all the pokemon buyback cards confirmed so far and a Link to my dropbox with a picture of all those cards.

I Aslo sent you a PM as we might be able to confirm the first Ever “2013 TOPPS 75th Anniversary - Buyback” Pokemon Duplicate :partying_face:

Wish you all an amazing day.
Daniel Girard Bolduc

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I’m glad my weepinbell already got listed but just mentioning there’s a typo in my name :smile:

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I Just Updated your Username :slight_smile:

I would really like to provide more information about your Weepinbell.

It would be really appreciated if you cold provide a photo of the front and back of your weepingbell so I will be able to identify the variation and also add it on the web page I just did to regroup all the photo of those 75th anniversary at the same place :slight_smile:

Link: 2013 TOPPS 75Th Anniversary - Pokemon Buyback

Furthermore, I would be really interested to know the backstory on how you acquired this card. Always love to hear those.

I might eventually create a page summary for the 75th anniversary with how all those cards have been acquire and their backstory agains with other stats related to them.

Have an awersome Day.
Daniel Girard Bolduc

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It’s really cool to see the effort put into this, the printing plate number as the basis for print run calculation is both extremely simple and extremely smart, great work. More and more people have been discussing these (almost always) 1 of 1s, what an evolution over the past 3 years lol.

As far as I know, I haven’t found a Charizard E6 Texture Foil card (if one ever existed), but I do own the next best in Blastoise E9 Texture Foil, as well as the first print Topps Charmeleon.

Here are some scans (There’s a ton of dust on my scanner lol and the Blastoise is triple sleeved lol, I’ll take better scans some day)

2009×2792 1.3 MB

1602×2252 1.04 MB

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Wow thanks a lot casual for sharing those beauties with the community :confetti_ball::fire:

Those are definilitely 2 Holy Grail of 75th Anniversary :unicorn:

Will add them to the list.

Could you confirm that the Back of the Charmeleon is a Blue Logo.

Also feel free to drop a backstory on those I am really intereated to know more about the story behind those card :slight_smile:

Regards,
Daniel Girard Bolduc

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The temple of mewtwo.

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I’ll send you the photos when i get the card in my hands! And about the story unfortunately not much to tell, few years ago when i found out about the existence of those i searched ebay and there was weepinbell for sale for around 15$ so was easy purchase back then :slight_smile:

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