This is one of Pokemon's first ever print errors. With the first print run of Japanese cards, instead of an extra stamp, they were missing a rarity symbol. Today, these cards are known Pokemon Base Set Price Guide PSA 1st Edition and Unlimited Pojo.com 1st Edition Pokemons Etsy Canada Base Set Complete Master Set (102 102) 1999 [MP DMG] TradingCardSets.Com How To Tell If A Pokemon Card Is First Edition [6 Steps] The OG base set trio. Japanese base set (1996) is even older than English shadowless first edition (1999). There's only one thing older than these and that's the no symbol error Japanese