Help Please Help Me Identify this Card!

Modjiberry

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It is a base set 29/102 shadowless Haunter. The problem is, the card I have is a holo. The set is only supposed to have 16 holo's and Haunter is not one of them. I have been to one end of the internet to the other looking for some mention of this card and it's value but I can find nothing, not a picture, not one for sale. Can anyone tell me about this card?
 
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It's either a fake or a real card with a "foil effect" added onto it, so it's worth approximately $0.00-0.05.
 
Pretty clearly not an official foil job. The pattern isn't even CLOSE to anything that has ever been produced by Wizards of the Coast or Pokemon (and it looks like it's scratched), and even though it's hard to tell given the very strong, dark foil, the holo cards from that era still have the backgrounds of the non-holo versions. (Of course Base Set didn't have non-holo versions of holo cards, but Jungle and Fossil did, and Evolutions also re-used the Base Set backgrounds.) This Haunter rather clearly doesn't.

Someone clearly made this card foil. Pretty good job of it (aside from their poor choice of foil style), but obviously not official or usable in any capacity. It's the kind of thing whose value is purely subjective (since there is some effort involved), but most people probably won't care for. Wonder why they decided to use a Shadowless card for this. Not like it really makes any difference, but still.
 
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