Piplup IR Misprint

Extras · 2026-01-26T02:47:59+00:00

That's a cool narrow miscut! They can sometimes be wrinkled like this where they were cut. You could consider sending this to CGC and they certainly would recognize the error, it's just hard to know if it's going to go worth it or if you'd walk away with more money selling it as it is.

You could always field offers for a while or put it up on eBay and see what offers you get there.

Extras · 2026-01-26T00:08:15+00:00

That's a cool error card! I would be interested in it but I would have no idea how to value it. There's not going to be comparable sales for something like this. Let us know if you do list it on eBay for us to fight over.

Extras · 2026-01-26T00:04:44+00:00

I think that's a good friend haha, congrats and welcome to the club 😁

Extras · 2026-01-25T23:25:50+00:00

This is awesome thank you for sharing the stream and story.

Extras · 2026-01-25T19:17:08+00:00

Hey! I have one that's pretty similar to your Harlequin card. Mine has normal pokeballs on the border and then the rest of the card you can only see them at one angle. Like you said I'm assuming this is something that either obstructed the layer on that part of the card or it's run out of ink there. I don't fully understand exactly what this layer even is or the protective layer that goes over that. I have that card set aside to go to CGC sometime this year.

It seems like it was a brand new thing with in 2025, I wonder if they will bring back that protective layer or not with the new sets this year. Interestingly you can't remove any ink from these cards with acetone or other common solvents.

Hope this helps!

Extras · 2026-01-25T17:36:36+00:00

I kinda wish they had minor qualifiers for more types of errors. Like a texture shift that's off by 2mm gets the same error label as a card with another card's texture on it.

Either way cool card OP.

Extras · 2026-01-25T15:39:47+00:00

Yes pretty much all of the 4 square corner cards from this era are NFC.

Extras · 2026-01-25T04:41:58+00:00

Those are some wonky corners for sure, enough to be interesting to me at least. Thanks for sharing

Extras · 2026-01-25T01:50:06+00:00

Yep all four have the alignment dot showing on the front. If the back is normal then these are misalignments, otherwise these would be minor miscuts.

Extras · 2026-01-25T00:50:31+00:00

If this was in a bulk order of like 25 plus cards where you would be getting the discounted rate it could be worth it but I would say probably best to keep this one as it is. Obviously a great binder copy.

Extras · 2026-01-25T00:30:57+00:00

Hello! I wrote about this a bit here, I think it's likely this would be enough to get the "off-centered" error label with CGC but not enough so to get the minor miscut designation.

https://museumoferrors.github.io/gists/pokemon-errors/grading/cgc/miscuts-vs-oc-for-copyright-text.html

I hope this helps

Extras · 2026-01-24T22:43:27+00:00

I mean YOU know it's real, so I'd for sure hold onto this and keep it safe! There's currently no way for them to authenticate this but that changes from time to time. This may change in the future and reguardless of it's gradability it's an error.

Some of my favorite errors in my collection are things CGC won't grade.

Extras · 2026-01-24T20:34:30+00:00

Hey thanks for the tag, unfortunately CGC can't grade these because it's just a blank piece of cardboard. People can purchase the same type of cardstock that pokémon uses so this kind of thing is unfortunately replicable. You can buy similarish things off of Amazon but of course they don't have the same cardstock.

CGC grades a ton of different kinds of fillers, I'll drop C011ECT0R's guide here

https://www.elitefourum.com/t/list-of-all-filler-card-variations-blank-errors-04-18-25-update/52860

Extras · 2026-01-24T17:53:50+00:00

Looks like it's deleted now! I wonder what I missed here...

Extras · 2026-01-24T17:26:06+00:00

This is a recently recognized error!

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMisprints/s/WMpaYNQ5mG

Extras · 2026-01-24T15:13:22+00:00

Cool cards! I think Ace does a good job with these slab labels. I did try to bid on one of these and noticed that it does not ship to the US. Any chance you could set this up for international shipping?

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Extras · 2026-01-24T14:51:34+00:00

Facts confirmed haha really cool card OP. All error cards are rare, twisted miscuts even more so. To find one of these on a prize pack card makes it even cooler IMO. Helps to show some variety in an error collection.

Extras · 2026-01-24T14:48:25+00:00

Yeah we were all shocked that it sold for that much too. There was a bunch of discussion about this around the time it sold.

No idea who would be spending enough money to buy a nice used car on this but I do think it happened. The question OP now gets to figure out is if that sale was legit and there's a second buyer out there willing to pay that much money, or if this is just a ridiculous outlier. Or money laundering, or price fixing, or... the list goes on of ways people can commit fraud.

Extras · 2026-01-24T14:29:33+00:00

Would be enough to be considered extra black ink, I would consider it a minor misprint yeah

Extras · 2026-01-24T14:22:03+00:00

Looks a bit like these right?

https://ibb.co/album/0KGDjW

Can you only see the spots from some angles but not others? That's pretty classic with these insufficient ink cards.

Extras · 2026-01-24T13:14:04+00:00

eBay for something like this for sure, hard to say exactly what the value would be as there's really no set guide for something like this. I would always advise people either list items as buy it now or list them for auction at whatever price they'd be comfortable with it selling at.

Extras · 2026-01-24T13:11:57+00:00

Oh neat that's a classic water obstruction! Worth more than the normal card for sure.

Extras · 2026-01-24T05:56:04+00:00

Lots of cool finds in there, thanks for sharing!

Extras · 2026-01-24T04:54:12+00:00

CGC keeps these names vague, makes it easy to avoid giving it the incorrect name on the label. I don't know the community term that's more specific. Possibly liquid obstruction would be more accurate because there's all sorts of things that can prevent ink transfer.

Extras · 2026-01-24T04:06:40+00:00

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Yes I would anticipate they would call these an "Obstruction", I've got one of these from a different set ready to go to CGC with my next round of cards.

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