{"id":60646,"date":"2025-01-31T15:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/vintage-pokemon-card-collecting-world-rocked-by-a-possible-flood-of-fakes-update\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:59:13","slug":"vintage-pokemon-card-collecting-world-rocked-by-a-possible-flood-of-fakes-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/vintage-pokemon-card-collecting-world-rocked-by-a-possible-flood-of-fakes-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Pok\u00e9mon Card Collecting World Rocked By A Possible Flood Of Fakes [Update]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Last year, hundreds of vintage prototype, test, and presentation Pok\u00e9mon cards believed to date back to the creation of the game in the 1990s sold for auction to various collectors for hundreds of thousands of dollars collectively. 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