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    Help Fake or Misprints?

    A "real" Pokémon card is one printed by either Wizards of the Coast or The Pokémon Company International. Anything else is fake. Yes. People *coughchinesecough* have been making fake Pokémon cards since they first started being printed. In fact, you can find a lot of them for super cheap if...
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    Help Is this Misprint Real or Fake?

    I have no idea, sorry. Keep in mind that it's only really worth anything to a collector, and only then to those that collect odd cards for the novelty. Just don't let the guy try to rip you off.
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    Help Fake or Misprints?

    The holo diglett is most certainly fake, as holographic cards require an extra white layer that is applied before the rest of the ink in order to select which parts allow the holographic paper to show through, and I doubt that the team that lays out the cards creates these white layers for every...
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    Help Is this Misprint Real or Fake?

    If I'm not mistaken, Pokémon cards are printed using a 4-colour offset printer. The 4 ink colours used are cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Each colour is applied separately using a different inking plate. Green would be achieved by overlaying (or placing tiny dots in close proximity) the...
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    Collecting Is this Lt. Surge's Fearow a legitimate WOTC misprint or fake?

    It's clearly a fake. The artwork background is completely different from the original. If you look at the original one, there's a cumulus cloud to the immediate left of Fearow (http://www.titillatingtreasures.com/blue/R10084a.jpg). Now compare this to the fake one. It has a sun to the left...
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