Everyone is hyping up the OP01 Romance Dawn Pre-Errata Luffy card as the "1st Edition Base Set Charizard" of One Piece, but the true market scarcity is actually way crazier than what the pop reports say.
Why? Because PSA completely screwed up the grading process in the early stages, making the actual population of true Pre-Errata cards a total mystery.
Check out the image attached.
Look closely at the card text: it says "Set up to 1..." This is 100% the corrected, cheaper Errata version of the card. The true, rare Wave 1 Pre-Errata version says "Set 1".
Now look at the PSA label. Does it say "Errata" anywhere on it? Nope. It just says 2022 One Piece Monkey D. Luffy OP01-Alternate Art #003.
Because PSA let a massive wave of these corrected versions slip by without properly labeling them "Errata," they lumped both completely different versions into the exact same pop report.
What this actually means for collectors? The official pop count is fake. The true population of actual "Set 1" Pre-Errata PSA 10s is significantly lower than what the pop reports tell you. The true grails are gate kept because early Errata copies are masquerading on the pop report under the generic label, true Wave 1 Pre-Errata supply is criminally suppressed.
If you are buying raw or relying purely on the general population report numbers to judge rarity, you're missing the real story. Check your text, because PSA sure didn’t. 🔎
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