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To this day only three of those error cards are known to exist in the entire world

Although there has been an instance of more cards appearing on auction, as in 2020, two more Illustrator Pikachus were sold by Yuichi Konno, one of the original creators of the Pokemon trading card game

"We are seeing people use this as an alternative asset and allocation of wealth," said Goldin

Often, this pattern has 'holo bleed,' which means that when held up to the light, you can see the pattern continue under the non-foil part of the card

Most of my JAP cards are the ones with "Pocket monsters" back

Scalpers will likely be abusing retail options to get hold of the booster boxes, stripping them down to resell valuable cards, and then dumping the bulk