154 dollars is what the SKS 7.62x39 was selling for then.
Back in the early 1990s for $100 you could walk out of a gun show, in Maryland no less, with a new in grease Chicom SKS and 1000 rds of Norinco steel core 7.62x39 ...
29 posted on 06/13/2016 11:12:58 AM PDT by NorthMountain
(A plague o' both your houses.)