2022-23 Topps Inception UEFA Club Competitions — Kevin Keegan
2023
Only five Orange Silver Signings Keegan cards were made, and this is the final serial number: 5/5, with the autograph signed directly on the card. It is a modern object, but the combination of Liverpool-era imagery, tiny production and Keegan’s later status as a consecutive Ballon d’Or winner gives it considerably more historical pull than an ordinary retrospective autograph.
Read the catalogue note →- Season
- 2022-23
- Set
- 2022-23 Topps Inception UEFA Club Competitions
- Insert
- Silver Signings On-Card Autographs
- Subject
- Kevin Keegan
- Club shown
- Liverpool FC
- Card number
- NNO / no conventional card number
- Parallel
- Orange
- Serial number
- 5/5
- Documented print run
- 5
- Autograph
- On-card / hard-signed
- Grading
- PSA 9 MINT
- Certification
- 124628759
- Condition
- PSA 9 MINT; card and holder appeared clean in supplied photographs
- Completeness
- Graded card in PSA holder; no separate packaging or supplementary material recorded.
Catalogue note
Only five Orange Silver Signings Keegan cards were made, and this is the final serial number: 5/5, with the autograph signed directly on the card. It is a modern object, but the combination of Liverpool-era imagery, tiny production and Keegan’s later status as a consecutive Ballon d’Or winner gives it considerably more historical pull than an ordinary retrospective autograph.
Archive significance: Exceptionally low print run, premium on-card autograph format, major historic Liverpool/England subject, first-generation Silver Signings context, strong visual design and PSA 9 presentation. It remains a modern retrospective autograph rather than a playing-era or historically pioneering Keegan card, so scarcity alone does not justify Gold Star status.
Print-run evidence: Serial numbering on the card and checklist research identifying the Orange Silver Signings parallel as /5.
Authentication: Topps authenticity statement printed on card reverse
Historical context: Archive research records Keegan as a major Liverpool figure of the 1970s, later consecutive Ballon d’Or winner in 1978 and 1979, and records his death on 20 July 2026 aged 75. The archive identifies Silver Signings as a 13-player on-card autograph subset and this Inception UEFA release as the introduction of Silver Signings on-card autographs to the product line.
Research caution: Do not infer a PSA population count from the /5 serial print run; no reliable Orange Keegan PSA 9 population count was independently established in the source archive.
Legacy record ID: Soccer Trading Card Archive — Record #001
Why this object matters
The on-card Keegan autograph is a distinct modern signed object with strong Liverpool relationships. The /5 parallel and PSA grade establish production and condition facts, not additional historical significance; 8.6 better separates it from playing-era primary records.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Historical context
Archive research records Keegan as a major Liverpool figure of the 1970s, later consecutive Ballon d’Or winner in 1978 and 1979, and records his death on 20 July 2026 aged 75. The archive identifies Silver Signings as a 13-player on-card autograph subset and this Inception UEFA release as the introduction of Silver Signings on-card autographs to the product line.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.6 / 10.
This is a curatorial judgement, not a measurement accurate to one tenth or a market valuation. Read the explanation and its evidence limits together.
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