Prices/Value Discussion.

[redmedals]

Indeed the good old days. I see there are no prices quoted for late 1980's and early 1990's when Soviet medals of any kind were nearly impossible to find and very very expensive the high orders and titles impossible to find. Then the Soviet Union disintegrated. In my opinion the prices you refer to reflect the big exodus of Soviet medals from the Soviet Union and former Soviet Republics in the mid to late 1990's back then it was a buyer's market. Supply is now drying up and harder to get at the source so it is a seller's market and this is reflected in the rising prices over the past two years. I would feel safe in saying the age old simple law of supply and demand is at work here.
Ron