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    Guest Darrell
    Posted

    Just took a spin over at CollectRussia and popped into the Order of Lenin Section :speechless1:

    Is this what a Type 6 Variation 1 are selling for now? MY GOD !!!

    http://collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=18918

    What's one that comes with Award Booklet and Case worth? Appears just the medal offered has jumped by over 300% form what I paid for the other goodies. This is Wahnsinnig ...

    Posted

    Yes, that's what these are selling for. I've been watching the Lenins on eBay and in the last four months at least four Lenins were sold there:

    S/N 1118XX - 3,000 USD

    S/N 1651XX - 2,800 USD

    S/N 1968XX - 3,000 USD

    S/N 4277XX - 3,200 USD

    Guest Rick Research
    Posted

    I suppose it's the old Scrap Bullion Value again...

    they are certainly not RARE, so it's as simple as the price of a lump of gold....

    wish that rationalized prices on all the other hundreds-of-thousands-to-millions handed out things that AREN'T gold!

    Posted (edited)

    I suppose it's the old Scrap Bullion Value again...

    they are certainly not RARE, so it's as simple as the price of a lump of gold....

    Sorry Rick, I just don?t get it.

    It appears to me that a Lenin weighs about 1.5 oz. and gold is currently about $830 per ounce on the world market. Therefore, as I see it, the bullion value of a Lenin comes out to around $1250. In post #2 you have four Lenins totaling $12,000 with a bullion value of $5,000.

    Am I missing something here? I am inclined to see it more as the result of whatever makes Red Banners worth $5,000 without research, etc. I suppose that I fail to appreciate ?oddities and variations? and put too much value on research and provenance because that was the main reason why I once collected Soviet - here?s what it is, who it was awarded to and why.

    Wild Card

    P.S. I assume that the Lenins cited in post #2 are also without research.

    Edited by Wild Card
    Posted

    Market price: Lenin vs. HSL

    Gentlemen,

    what's an even more interesting aspect at the present market is, is the fact that there is almost no price difference between a much rarer HSL and a Lenin :speechless: . The gold content is about the same, I guess.

    O.K., maybe the Lenin is the most famous - and most well known - order of the Soviet Union, but also the HSL (Stalin & Co.) had been well known :unsure: .

    Just compare:

    There had been around 22.000 HSL issued, but more than 600.000 Lenins :jumping: .

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

    Posted

    Same old... same old!!!

    Be astonished when the prices go down not up!

    Till then rising prices are the nature of the game - and regrettably no amount of attempted rationalisation will bring the price down

    Jim

    Posted

    Market price: Lenin vs. HSL

    Gentlemen,

    what's an even more interesting aspect at the present market is, is the fact that there is almost no price difference between a much rarer HSL and a Lenin :speechless: . The gold content is about the same, I guess.

    O.K., maybe the Lenin is the most famous - and most well known - order of the Soviet Union, but also the HSL (Stalin & Co.) had been well known :unsure: .

    Just compare:

    There had been around 22.000 HSL issued, but more than 600.000 Lenins :jumping: .

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

    Christian,

    When is the last time that you saw a real HSL available for sale? As far as I know, they go today for significantly more than $3,000.

    Marc

    Posted

    Christian,

    When is the last time that you saw a real HSL available for sale? As far as I know, they go today for significantly more than $3,000.

    Marc

    I was gonna say: whoever has a real one for sale for 3K, please PM me! In fact, I'll pay 1K extra if it's with documents :cheeky:

    Posted

    I was gonna say: whoever has a real one for sale for 3K, please PM me! In fact, I'll pay 1K extra if it's with documents :cheeky:

    Bob,

    Who wouldn't? At that price, it would be a steal :rolleyes:

    Marc

    Posted

    A documented hero star was just sold at zeige auction for 6.500 Euro...

    Bob,

    Zeige is unreliable when it comes to genuineness. These days, such an amount is way too much or too little :rolleyes:

    Marc

    Guest Darrell
    Posted

    HSL?

    I was going to ask the same thing. What the heck is HSL? You mean HSU?

    Posted

    I was going to ask the same thing. What the heck is HSL? You mean HSU?

    HSU: Hero of the Soviet Union

    HSL: Hero of Socialist Labor

    Marc

    Posted

    HSL?

    HSU

    There was another one for 10K (but it included several additional awards)

    Go to zeige's website and click through on auction - you can easily scroll through all the lots (with description/pic) and see both starting price and final price

    Posted

    When is the last time that you saw a real HSL available for sale? As far as I know, they go today for significantly more than $3,000.

    Dear Marc,

    you are right ... Igor had one some month ago.

    So, what do you expect the market price of an ordinary HSL (without docs) in good condition now in Moscow :unsure: ?

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

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