Collecting

Trading-card collecting, measured from the sources: what graders publish, what the symbols on a card mean in English and Japanese, how a label reads, how foils were printed. Written for collectors and for Kiradex, the collector's dex for iPhone, which builds to what these posts establish.

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How Card Centering Is Judged, and How to Measure It What PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC, TAG and ACE allow for centering at each grade, front and back, from their own pages, and how to measure a card's borders at h... Pokémon Card Rarity and Set Symbols, English and Japanese How to read a Pokémon card's bottom line: English rarity symbols by era, Japanese codes, set codes, secret numbers, and the regulation marks behind ro...

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The Illustrators of Pokémon Cards, by the Numbers

Who draws Pokémon cards, counted: 392 English and 314 Japanese illustrator names in one card index, by era, year and set, each count with its unit and...

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How Card Centering Is Judged, and How to Measure It

What PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC, TAG and ACE allow for centering at each grade, front and back, from their own pages, and how to measure a card's borders at h...

2026-10-05 81m read

Pokémon Card Rarity and Set Symbols, English and Japanese

How to read a Pokémon card's bottom line: English rarity symbols by era, Japanese codes, set codes, secret numbers, and the regulation marks behind ro...

2026-10-05 104m read