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Sequential # SKS values "bookends"
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SKS experts care to opinion on a pair of excellent condition Norinco SKS. Bookends sequential serials.[:o)]..
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Sequential (or other fancy) serials don't hurt, but I don't think realistically this will do much for the value.
In this market, excellent condition Chinese SKS with original furniture, maybe $350, give or take a bit. You can double that for your two.
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Responding to below, its assumed that the above listed guns are ordinary SKS rifles, or the poster would have said otherwise.
The SKS-D variants that AK mags are relatively scarce and highly desirable. Those are probably worth about $650 (!) each right now. The 16 inch barrel "paratrooper" commercial guns are more common, but also more desirable than the standard models as "shooters" and run about $425 each.
Incidentally 10 years ago, Yugo SKS rifles could still be had in cosmoline for as little as $125! Its funny, I just pulled up a post from a different gun board from ten years ago where one poster opined that Yugo SKS rifles would never exceed $250 value "in our lifetimes".
Obviously, that was wrong, and in fact, SKS rifles have been amongst the fastest appreciating of any of the military surplus guns (roughly 300% value increase in ten years) because of a number of factors beyond the scope of this post.
700 sound like a good baseline for two.