i recently bought a dutch unlimited lapras from the fossil set (this is fairly rare in it’s own) but i see it has a double swirl. it is the first time in two years that i encountered a double swirl like this outside of the neo genesis set and it made me wonder how rare these actually are. offcourse in english you don’t have cosmos foils for the first three sets but if a foreign cosmos foil has this i’m starting to think that there is more to be found out there but people just don’t look for this stuff.
i wanted to share this because i havn’t seen anything about it and i feel this post could maby help people out.
i don’t know to much about this stuff myself but it also has a foil line that interrupts part of the cosmos but this is normal for a double swirl like this i think.
anyone that can share some of their findings on this topic or cards of their own? ^^
I feel double swirls are pretty rare on most cards. A single swirl is uncommon enough, but a double I only see once in a while. It’s really hard to say the exact % of cards that would have gotten a double but I feel it’s pretty low.
In general though most of the Japanese holos or any other cosmos holo can have a swirl or 2, I don’t think it really matters what set it is (i.e Neo vs Fossil or any other). It just has to have the cosmos holo pattern so I don’t think you would find much difference in swirl frequency between any of the sets. I could be wrong though.
No idea how common or rare double swirls are but I have to imagine this card with nearly a quad swirl is pretty rare. It seems like any card with multi swirls are typically lined up as the swirls on the sheet are in a straight line down and not quite as random but I don’t really know.
half a year ago i really started to get into swirls and the holo foil pattern overall. i tried to learn as much about it as possible so i do know about the quad swirls aswell but that is different from the neo genesis double swirls. quad swirls is because of the returning pattern in the cosmos foil but the genesis swirls are because of two foil sheets stuck together. (or that’s what i heard) i’m mostly interested in this because with the normal pattern you cant get two swirls in vintage card artwork boxes. altho i did learn that the E-series artwork box is bigger and there it is possible to get two swirls.
and before i made this post i searched if there where older posts made here and i seen for the first time that the neo genesis way of double swirls happened vertically. (blew my mind lol) it did feel weird to me that there where almost no posts about this. made me wonder if people really didn’t care and that’s the reason why none of these double swirls are known outside of neo genesis.
