Hello! First time poster here wondering what these cards are. I have obtained pretty vague information on both. One is from a corocoro lottery prize? While the other is from an unreleased jumbo card set? Any help would be appreciated!
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as getting the direct link on imgur is impossible now since the update.
Albums can’t be posted in image-tags, but every link separated can. 
I can’t help you with what they are, though. The second one seems to be a CoroCoro Phone card, and that same artwork can also be found on the Pokémon manga vol. 1. But that’s about all I know.
Greetz,
Quuador
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@quuador,thank you! hopefully someone knows what they are, they seem super obscure.
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Those are 1996 Banpresto Pokemon Jumbo Cards - there are 6 of them to my knowledge. Not sure how they were distributed but I have the Vol 4 one - the one with Gyarados and Gary - ha… double Gary…
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@azulryu,cool part of history! I saw a previous thread saying these were never released. Wonder is PSA or other companies grade them.
I think Pic #2 and #3 are the same item but, that is a telephone card.
Instead of using change, you buy a pre-paid telephone booth card.
It will get hole punched on the numbered side when used, indicating how much is left (numbers can be seen on the left in pic #3)
Since it wasn’t hole punched, it has never been used.
The others are what @azulryu said.
In Spanish it would be “Gary Dos”.
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@kaminoikari,Thanks! what an interesting marketing strategy for the time.
This is a very rare telephone card which was a reward for a competition hosted in the September 1997 issue of CoroCoro Comic. The competition commemorated one of their earlier magazines hitting a circulation of 2 million copies. There are two telephone cards which use the cover artwork from Kosaku Anakubo’s Pokémon Pocket Monsters volumes 1 and 2. It’s documented that only 50 of each of these were handed out.
Despite having a documented release of 50 copies, like the TMB legendary bird telephone cards these appear for sale more frequently than other telephone cards with similar distribution numbers. Whether there were other CoroCoro competitions which awarded the same telephone cards I don’t know, but this is the only source we’re aware of so far.
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@pichufan,that is so awesome! thank you!
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I do believe I saw a picture of someone having it graded by PSA on Instagram - will have to see if it’s in my saved file - just don’t quote me on that. They seem to be grading almost everything Pokemon as long as it’s paper of some sort nowadays which is pretty cool.
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@azulryu,funny enough, I had PSA research to see if they would grade the “nice cards” from Pokémon channel. The reason was “Unfortunately, there isn’t a checklist of the physical cards which we require for corroboration of publication information. The box art and the Pokémon Channel links mention the physical cards, but do not have a checklist of the physical e-Reader cards themselves. Because of that, we can’t accept any of the Nice-related cards for authentication or grading.”
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These actually were released in Banpresto Machines starting in 1996 like the one pictured below. You put in money and randomly got one back. I updated the thread that mentioned they were never released. At the time the information was as they say “not for sale” on the card they were not released but that was intentional by Banpresto. They did not want them sold any way other then from the machine with random chance. Shout out to Shizzle for solving that. I have seen one graded by BGS so far though i have a feeling psa would be open to grading them. However the BGS jumbo case is way better then PSA’s imo
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@collect,cool to learn! these seem very very scarce!
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Do you know if the 1999 Shogakukuan Phone Card is also included in that list? Or something entirely different?
There are a lot of different Shogakukan telephone cards so I’m not sure which 1999 one you’re referring to, but the lottery in the September 1997 issue only awarded those two telephone cards (amongst several other non-Pokémon items).
this one in specific:
none of my images work! This is the card I am referencing.