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COLLECTIBLES COLUMN: Prices Soar for Shield's Signed Cards

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By Michael Moore, PWTorch Collectibles specialist

In Brief: Certified autographs of Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, and Dean Ambrose continue to heat up.

Card Show Tuesday #20: The Shield 2013 Topps Best of WWE Autographs

Fans have been waiting for months to see just how a Roman Reigns's babyface turn would play out. Instead, all three members of the Shield are now seemingly fan favorites.

Over the last three months, certified autographs of Reigns, Seth Rollins, and Dean Ambrose from the 2013 Topps Best of WWE have been among the hottest wrestling cards on eBay. Cards that were selling in December for $15 are suddenly fetching more than $50 – or, in the case of Reigns, over $100.

Since mid-December, Rollins and Ambrose have been selling for similar prices. At the time, each autograph could be found for around $15. Prices gradually crept up through January and February, with each wrestler’s autograph usually selling in the $35-45 range. Rollins’s autograph has sold as high as $66.50, and Ambrose’s as high as $59.99.

As mentioned in an earlier PWTorch Collectibles Column, Reigns has been the break-out star of the group with collectors. In December, his autograph was selling at about the same levels of his Shield comrades, fetching about $15-20. But, since his big moment at the Royal Rumble in January, sales of Reigns’ 2013 Topps WWE autograph have skyrocketed. In March, two auctions ended at just over $100, and another ended at $95. All other auctions have ended at a minimum of $75 over the last month.

The value of The Shield's autographs has been helped by the limited supply of the cards available. So far, the autographs of Reigns, Rollins, and Ambrose have only been available in 2013 Topps Best of WWE. Had Topps included new autographed cards of the three in its 2014 WWE product, there’s a good chance that prices would have softened.

Topps will release its next WWE product, 2014 WWE Chrome, this summer. Early checklists are almost identical to 2014 Topps WWE, meaning that signatures from the Shield aren’t scheduled to be included in the Chrome product either.

With a limited supply of cards and a hot babyface run, autographs of Rollins, Ambrose, and Reigns could continue to increase in value throughout the year.

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PWTorch Collectibles Specialist Michael Moore can be reached at MichaelMooreWriter@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter @MMooreWriter .


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