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by hn773746483 48 days ago
A couple years back one of the original Pokemon TCG designers was outright printing off fakes of pre-release cards and peddling them with the help of a western company, and people only found out because they decoded printer patterns and found out they were printed with a recent printer.
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And they were specifically graded as legitimate by a supposedly reputable grading company. I wonder what was the fallout from that.