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Whether or not a copy still sealed in the original trophy case would have fetched more remains to be seen, though, given the card's value, it's perhaps a little surprising that the seller opted to open it up

While Pokmon USA tries to keep the coloring on card backs as consistent as possible, there is some variation and that makes color variation alone an unreliable method to use to determine a fake

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Over the years, The Pokmon Company released several oversized promotional formats for collectors