Not sure what these actually are. Does anyone have some insight for me or a link to information on these cards?
My buddy had them tossed in with some orders made in 1999 off the home shopping network.
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Those are some examples of stickers from the 1999 Pocket Monsters Hyper Sticker Collection (Super Deluxe Gold).
Here’s what a pack of these would have looked like,
Front:
Back:
Here are some images of the box the packs came in,
Front:
Back:
Side 1:
Side 2:
The back of the pack also reveals what I think is the total amount of stickers (91) and the amount of stickers per rarity:
40 透明シール “Tōmei shīru”: Transparent Sticker
39 メタリックシール “metarikku shīru”: Metallic Sticker
6 メタリックエンポスシール “metarikku enposu shīru”: Metallic Embossed Sticker
6 プリズムエンポスシール “purizumu enposu shīru”: Prism Embossed Sticker
The box also reads that one pack of stickers will contain 6 stickers following this rule:
3 Metallic Stickers, 2 Transparent Stickers and 1 Metallic Embossed Sticker.
That leaves the Prism Embossed Stickers being the rarest of the lot and those are probably inserted at random to take the place of the, what I would guess, Metallic Embossed Sticker.
Packs were priced at JPY 150 (around $1,33) and a box contained 30 of these packs. So in 1999 a box of these would have set you back JPY 4500 (around $39,82).
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透明 is transparent
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Thank you so much for confirming! I only just noticed the Hiragana Toumei/Tōmei above the kanji, I must be going blind!
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They are Amada Stickers. They are collectable stickers and generally they have an accompanying collection books you can stick them in.
Thanks everyone!