What is my Mosin-Nagant worth?

Made in the tens of millions across seventy years and several countries, which is why most are worth modest money. The exceptions are specific arsenals, specific years, and rifles that escaped refurbishment.

Made 1891–1960s.

No page can price your gun, and one that offers to is guessing. What this does is show you which one you have — because that is where the money is.

How to tell which one you have

Find the arsenal mark on the receiver, which identifies where it was made.
Read the date stamped alongside it.
Check whether the serial numbers on the receiver, bolt, magazine floorplate and buttplate match.
Establish the variant: full-length rifle, or one of the shorter carbines.

The versions that change the number

Version	What it means for value
91/30 1930–1945	The standard full-length rifle and the most common by far.
M38 and M44 carbines 1938–1950s	Shorter rifles, the M44 with a folding bayonet. A distinct market.
Pre-1930 and imperial production 1891–1920s	Earlier rifles, including foreign-contract production, which are scarcer.
Refurbished rifles post-war	Rebuilt and force-matched at arsenals. The great majority of what survives.

What actually drives the price

Arsenal and date, where specific combinations are genuinely scarce.
Whether the rifle is original or a post-war refurbishment.
Matching numbers across the major parts.
Sniper variants and their optics, which are a separate and frequently faked market.

And the two that apply to every gun on this site: do not clean it, and keep the box and papers. Removing original finish is permanent, and on the right gun the packaging is a real part of the total.

"They are worth nothing, they sold them by the crate"

They did, and the common refurbished rifles are inexpensive accordingly. Certain arsenals, early production and unrefurbished rifles with matching numbers are not common at all, and the difference is stamped on the receiver. It costs nothing to read it before selling a crate of them as a crate.

Is a sniper version worth a lot more?

A genuine one is worth a great deal more, and the market has a real problem with rifles assembled to look like them. Scope, mount, receiver markings and provenance all have to agree, which is exactly the kind of thing worth having examined rather than assumed.

Getting a number for yours

Send photographs and we will tell you what we will pay for it. We buy nationwide — a single firearm ships to us prepaid and insured, and for a collection we come to you. More on what separates one military surplus rifles from another.

Other military surplus rifles models

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