Hi everyone, I have some ninetales and gyarados cards from the Italian language base set in my collection, but they have the holography of the English language cards. Does anyone have any information on this type of error? nothing is mentioned in the cgc database. thank you all
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Purely a guess but since it is a ninetales and a gyarados that you are seeing this with, I think theme decks. I wonder if it could be that the packs and decks had different foil types when they were printed which has been overlooked due to the language difference.
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I thought the same, but looking in some video opening theme deck, all the cards came with the standard cosmo holo.
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Good post from @c0ll3ct0r below:
Base set 2, first set (outside Fossil) to feature the cosmos holo was released February 24, 2000. The Galaxy Pichu card in the referenced thread was released (in English at least) July 8, 2000 during the 3rd movie release. The copyright date on the Italian cards is 1999-2000 so it was most likely printed during 2000s (cosmos holo would suggest that too). This must have all happened around the Galaxy → Cosmos transition.
This could be a case of just WOTC using whatever they had, just like them making the triangle packs to put unlimited cards in 1st ed packs. Perhaps the last of the Galaxy supply was used to print Italian cards, from the Pikachu/Pichu black star promos and some leftovers used in Italian base. The fact that they are both theme deck holos does suggest that possibly some number of theme deck sheets were printed in galaxy holo.
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Thank you very much for your reply, so the only knew italian card are the two pichu/pikachu promo and ninetales and gyarados from base set, or there are other ones?
IF these are from a theme deck sheet then there’s a good chance that Hitmonchan, Mewtwo (and maybe Machamp) also have a variant like this
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Never seen in years 
, keep my eyes looking for these ones