{"product_id":"1996-pokemon-base-set-japanese-charizard-holo-no-rarity-symbol-bgs-9-5","title":"1996 Pokémon Base Set Japanese Charizard Holo, No Rarity Symbol — BGS 9.5","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare cards exist. Iconic cards exist. And then there is this one. The 1996 Japanese Charizard No Rarity Symbol is the card that began everything: before the international Base Set, before Wizards of the Coast, before the Pokémon TCG became the global phenomenon it is today, there was the Japanese market — and within it, in its most primordial and authentic form, this card.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Pokémon TCG launched in Japan in 1996, the earliest print runs left the rarity symbol off the bottom-right corner. That absence is the signature of an unrepeatable moment: the very first print run in the history of the Pokémon TCG, rapidly superseded by versions carrying the symbol, which makes the No Rarity Symbol one of the most limited and historically significant printings ever produced. It is not a variant of the Charizard; it is the original from which everything else derives. Unlike the English editions produced by Wizards of the Coast, this card carries the original Japanese cosmos holofoil pattern — a deep, star-filled holographic effect, visually distinct from and superior to every Western version — over Mitsuhiro Arita's artwork that became a cultural icon of the hobby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rarity is measurable. Across PSA, CGC and BGS, only 1,205 graded copies of the No Rarity Charizard exist in the entire history of third-party grading, and only a small number of those reached the highest grades. In BGS 9.5 Gem Mint there is a single example in the world, and it is this one, publicly verifiable in the Beckett database. It is a card without a direct comparable, without a precedent sale of its own grade, and without any possibility of replication: the collector acquiring it is not buying the second-best example, but the only example of its kind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collecto Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58064251289940,"sku":"3771","price":105600.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/9083\/7588\/files\/3771-01.png?v=1793449623","url":"https:\/\/collectoarchive.com\/products\/1996-pokemon-base-set-japanese-charizard-holo-no-rarity-symbol-bgs-9-5","provider":"Collecto Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}