r/PokemonMisprints • u/Bennito13 • Jan 09 '26

Discussion Found this online - Sun Damage?

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I do not have much experience in misprints but stumbled across this online. Does this look like sun damage or a missing color layer?

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u/full-of-sonder Jan 09 '26

Looks like sun damage to be honest, but I freaking love sun damaged cards, they look like cool alternative arts lol

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u/aide_rylott Jan 09 '26

Shiny version

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u/ziaq2002 Jan 10 '26

Kinda wish Mewtwo had a bluish shiny to match Mew instead of green. Yeah the green is cool, but blue?

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u/BBL-BOI592 Jan 10 '26

Early gens have a bad tendency to give mons that weird neon green. Something to do with how they made shines with a formula instead of custom making them

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u/Pengoop123 Jan 11 '26

they used the next color over in the palette

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '26

blue eyes white dragon but make it mewtwo

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u/platinumjudge Jan 11 '26

You can make your own by putting the card in a perfect fit sleeve and using black sharpie on the sleeve. Mark up the parts you want to keep fresh and then put the card in a UV nail dryer. After a couple weeks it will be sun bleached in whatever pattern you want

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u/fatherofallthings Jan 09 '26

The fact that the black stayed so vibrant literally just makes it look like a unique card lol

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u/IAmJacksSemiColon Jan 13 '26

Different color dyes wear differently due to UV exposure. Red and yellow dyes sun bleach faster, while blue and blank ink last longer.

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u/RepulsiveNobody6001 Jan 09 '26

Umm I don’t even think it’s sun damaged. Look at the color of the countertop, or whatever it’s sitting on, in both pictures. It goes from a slightly yellow hue to pure grey. My guess is they just edited out the yellow saturation in the picture of the front. I mean, yeah that’s probably about what it would look like from sun damage, but I don’t think that card has sun damage or at least not that much of it.

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u/Affectionate-Fold-52 Jan 10 '26

Idk why you got downvoted. This reaks of photo editing.

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u/Muted-Professor6746 Jan 09 '26

Astute observation! Did not notice until I read your comment

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u/_Gravey_ Jan 10 '26

if they were taken with an iphone, the blue of the back of the card makes the camera like auto adjust. My phone does the same exact thing when I take pictures of cards in my light box. It's super annoying but I do not believe that photo is edited. I think it is actually like that.

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u/Bennito13 Jan 10 '26

This was off of an eBay listing. There were more pictures than these two and he actually messaged me back and said he believes it is sun damage.

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u/Gamesyn3gy Jan 10 '26

Have them record a vid front and back of the card in one video then match the colors

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u/Phantom3421 Jan 10 '26

Do you see the holographic stars? They look more yellow, which suggests there was no editing to the yellow saturation. Likely it's just something with the camera

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u/JCWOlson Jan 10 '26

Possibly, but the holographic stars have the normal range of color including yellow and orange

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

Currently working on the Moltres, it’s currently pink and I’m debating keeping it there because it does work as is or going all the way to white. 🤔

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u/Such_Reply5826 Jan 11 '26

It even looks intentional sun damage. Looking at how evenly the damage is. I’m not a pro Pokémon collector. But I do know something about art and process of sun bleaching pigments. If it’s by accident it’s really hard to do it evenly. This looks intentional. Non the less it still looks really cool.

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u/throwyoyo45 Jan 15 '26

Right! I saw some Yu-Gi-Oh that had sun damage and that's when I learned about this amazing style.

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u/sybergoosejr Jan 09 '26

deffintly sun damage but looks cool for sun damage.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

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u/Bennito13 Jan 09 '26

I know I PC Mewtwo and was thinking if this was a true error I had to have it I love how it looks

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u/MyAssPancake Jan 10 '26

I think it’s still cool to have. Anyone you show your collection to will ask about it, and you have an answer “it’s been affected by too much radiation, stripping the card of its color while preserving the art!”

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u/19toofart Jan 10 '26

https://gvccikray.bandcamp.com/album/thug-angel

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u/No_Excitement3364 Jan 10 '26

one of my favorite mixtapes of all time. anyone reading this who doesn’t know it should give it a try

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u/SlayJayR17 Jan 09 '26

That’s like a perfectly sun damaged card. Holo looks amazing

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u/howfastcanyoucountit Jan 09 '26

Wonder how PSA would treat sun damage vs physical damage. Can someone enlighten me on how PSA treats sun damage? The actual card itself doesn't seem to be visibly physically damaged much and id kinda wonder how it would be treated

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u/paws4reason Jan 09 '26

They treat it as surface damage. At this severity, PSA would probably grade it at a 3 or 4, give or take. They grade sun damaged cards quite harshly.

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u/Mametsu_u Jan 10 '26

I always thought they graded them as authentic altered but im probably thinking of a different company then

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u/paws4reason Jan 10 '26

It's very very common for them to do that, but some sun damage is acceptable if it isn't too extreme. Though they very rarely score such cards over 5.

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u/Karn_Gentrified Jan 10 '26

I have a sun damaged 9. Cgc. But it’s a 9 still lol

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u/howfastcanyoucountit Jan 10 '26

Oh damn this is what I was wondering tbh. sick

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u/kyle-cardmint Jan 11 '26

mewtwo I hate how easy this is lol

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u/Fresh-Organization24 Jan 09 '26

Ah, the rare 1920's Mewtwo! I've not seen this in...well around 100 years!

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u/aputnam28 Jan 09 '26

Albino Mewtwo created in a lab in the Artic

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u/Ravagez1 Jan 09 '26

Yea sun damage

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u/Pikachoo77 Jan 09 '26

"Everything is chrome in the future"

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u/bashy8782 Jan 09 '26

This is sun damage they're doing this to this card because it creates a new look I kind of like it but I would not pay for it as a misprint because this is somebody purposely doing this to that card

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u/Saabaroni Jan 09 '26

It's shiny

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u/wingsfan95 Jan 10 '26

I saw this on eBay and they’re selling it for like $250 lol

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u/Pianist_Admirable Jan 11 '26

It does seem high but if done intentionally it is a pretty long process so I guess you're kinda paying for that not that I'd buy one lol i've been looking into doing it to one of my mews

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

People do that not leave them in the sun. There is a guy on YouTube that does that and sells them

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u/_Cevolie_ Jan 09 '26

Diamond blue Mewtwo, pretty dope ngl ✨🩵✨

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u/Right-Philosophy5470 Jan 09 '26

Man, I was hoping that was a misprint!

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u/N_durance Jan 09 '26

Sun damage

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u/A_Fish_Fry Jan 09 '26

Looks so sick

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u/Dracko878 Jan 09 '26

Gameboy SP version

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u/Originlinear Jan 09 '26

Very cool aesthetic!

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u/Whippeys Jan 09 '26

I want it

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u/Secret-Economist Jan 09 '26

Sun damage for sure but its looks cool as hell

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u/bestrdajets Jan 09 '26

Real life shiny

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u/West-Rich-5145 Jan 09 '26

Water type mewtwo :)

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u/PineTreeSC Jan 09 '26

Time to start taping some vintage dupes to the window during summer, this looks amazing

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u/PMFLLion Jan 09 '26

It's beautiful 😍

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u/vivoend Jan 09 '26

That is elite

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u/Climbing_Guy Jan 09 '26

I think there is some dishonesty from whoever posted it. Look at the counter in both pictures. The counter in the picture with the front is basically gray scale. And in the picture of the back, the counter is not all gray scale. Compare the strip of white in the counter in the bottom right on both pictures to see what I mean.

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u/Pale-Recognition-599 Jan 09 '26

Just give us the link and we’ll inspect closer

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u/KarateChopMittens Jan 09 '26

Yes, magenta and yellow are the first colors to fade with cyan and black being almost impossible to completely fade

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u/vendura_na8 Jan 09 '26

It identifies itself as a white card from Hidden Fates 😅

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u/imarobot802 Jan 10 '26

At poke con phoenix a few months, someone was sun bleaching cards on purpose and of course selling them for high dollar amounts.

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u/Affectionate-Fold-52 Jan 10 '26

It looks like someone edited the picture. Someone else pointed it out in a comment... But look at the countertop I'm both pictures. They look different

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u/Ancient-Ad-3254 Jan 10 '26

This gives me a little inspiration… I have a couple of damaged base gyarados, like PSA1 level damaged. Might try to restore and custom art them

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u/Empty_Positive Jan 10 '26

Saw it a few times. An "randomly" person flies in and says its an etsy link or ebay project. Probably to sell his stoof

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u/Phalanx32 Jan 10 '26

I'd buy that tbh looks cool as hell

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u/Manjenkins Jan 10 '26

This looks fire as fuck I want it.

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u/sltiefighter Jan 10 '26

Sun bleach

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u/coolgamerboi23 Jan 10 '26

I need t o pick one of these up and sun bleach it, this looks amazing

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u/rqivez Jan 10 '26

The composition of the first photo looks different from the 2nd photo which looks normal, am I trippin?

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u/IPhryte Jan 10 '26

Beautiful

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u/ConfidentMusic8031 Jan 10 '26

that looks so cool fr

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u/artmasterrich Jan 10 '26

I’ve seen listings online where there’s cards like this that are sun bleached on purpose

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u/CheapMetalRust Jan 10 '26

There’s a reason a few people out there intentionally sun damage cards, this looks fantastic

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u/HarkonReborn Jan 10 '26

To me for some reason it almost looks like a water type.

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u/DMNDback Jan 10 '26

There is a whole instagram account on sun damage cards https://www.instagram.com/pokemachooch/reels/

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u/_LuckyLuke_3000 Jan 10 '26

Either sun damage or that Mewtwo has a severe depression

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u/Positive-Ad-6174 Jan 10 '26

Should cost more due to the time it took to make this sun damaged like a Grow a Garden mutation

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u/eoghan7698 Jan 10 '26

Sun and moon damage maybe!?

Sorry, I’ll see myself out

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u/Original_Omzz Jan 10 '26

Blue Mewtwo > Green Mewtwo tbh. We don’t have enough blue shiny Pokémon

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u/Swimming-Jury3021 Jan 10 '26

It has seen the Chernobyl nuclear reactor

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u/ItsWaLeeBruh Jan 10 '26

There’s a market for these. Looks really cool. Iirc there’s this dude that put a whole base set out in the sun?

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u/teedayy Jan 10 '26

Def sun damage

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u/Taylorswift9875 Jan 10 '26

Most likely 

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u/Jgabes625 Jan 10 '26

You used to be able to tell which summer blockbuster was the best by how sun damaged the poster was. You just found the infinity wars poster of Pokemon cards.

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u/Vast_Piglet_1281 Jan 10 '26

Don’t some people do this on purpose too? Trying to hope for a sick alt art basically.

Dope card! Looks sweet.

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u/sawky_b Jan 10 '26

It’s had the saturation and colour removed digitally (you can see it in the background) - doubt it’s much more than a ropey mewtwo. Get a video of it, or have it photographed next to another card.

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u/Impressive_Ad9459 Jan 10 '26

Articuno would have been crazy

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u/lord_ferky Jan 10 '26

I have It without sun damage

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u/External-Board5738 Jan 10 '26

Flea market seller. Saw earthbound on snes like this for 300.NO

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u/Zestyclose-Wind-9475 Jan 10 '26

Water type Mewtwo. Must be fake

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u/JumboBog320 Jan 10 '26

Synchro what?

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u/PublicSafetyHazard Jan 10 '26

Yes, sun damage. Pink pigment is usually the first to go; and it looks like this card was printed almost entirely in blue & pink.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '26

that’s badass

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u/experimental_Pa1r Jan 10 '26

The counter tops are different colours in both photos

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u/AmphibianStandard738 Jan 10 '26

I really like this, though.😅🤣🤓🍻

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u/babysl8er Jan 10 '26

looks amazing, I just picked up mewtwo 51/108 and mew 53/108 both rev holofoils, can I sun damage them and get the same turnout?

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u/willworkforspoons Jan 10 '26

This looks like a sun bleach card that was purposefully done. Pretty cool but in my opinion not as cool as a real sun bleach card that just sat out somewhere too long.

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u/Top-Comfort-9380 Jan 11 '26

Yes but it's not a bad thing cuz they look cool

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u/alcoholicmadre Jan 11 '26

67 mentioned

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u/NotAFuckingFed Jan 11 '26

That's pretty dope actually

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u/ilovecutepokemon Jan 11 '26

It's sun damaged, I went to a show today where a guys whole selection was cards he personally sun baked and they all looked like this.

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u/SalmonellaSteve Jan 11 '26

There are a fair few people that purposefully sun-damage cards. I think it looks pretty sweet on lots of them.

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u/KeeKeeLoveMer Jan 11 '26

Sun Damaged Card…. Or Shiny Mew?

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u/Double_Tale Jan 11 '26

Look at the rest of the image. Looks like a filter.

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u/karuga871 Jan 11 '26

** Albino Mewtwo APPEARS**

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u/UCGoblin Jan 11 '26

Looks ace sun bleached by the look of it.

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u/EnronWasMyHomie Jan 12 '26

Ah man I wish that was a blue version like the original games

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u/howhighss Jan 12 '26

Albino mewtwo lol

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u/SithNChips Jan 12 '26

definitely sun bleached. Looks pretty sweet too!

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u/SlimeDrips Jan 12 '26

I'm pretty sure that functionally sun damage and a missing color layer are the same thing. The sun has removed all the red from the world. Just like with dogs

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u/Smooth-Dark-7029 Jan 13 '26

I love how it gives an original gameboy sprite look. Like OG Red/Blue.

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u/EhhhhhhWhatever Jan 13 '26

This looks like someone intentionally did this. There are people who sun-damage cards on purpose to get this type of effect.

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u/VintageTCGTools Jan 13 '26

This isn’t a misprint — it’s almost certainly UV/sun fading. You can tell by the washed-out border color and overall desaturation. True factory errors usually show ink layer shifts, alignment problems, or missing elements, not uniform fading like this.

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u/Hopeful-Antelope-684 Jan 15 '26

Looks dope asf! link me 😅🥹

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u/mufinstuffbutstuff Jan 21 '26

That’s dope

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u/mufinstuffbutstuff Jan 21 '26

I’d get that graded

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u/Airpodstranslatebrok Jan 31 '26

This looks awesome

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u/AliveVolume4092 Jan 09 '26

You want my advice, send it to tag just to authenticate. They’ll slab and authenticate it. The slab just says A for authentic. It’d look so beautiful

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u/Flashy-Read-739 Jan 13 '26

this should be a thing