Looking over Stottman's photos of his enviable collection of AKS74's, it appears that the serial numbers start over in 1980 (see his 1979 serial 959K and his 1980 258K). Was there a reason for this? Given the serial number ranges of post-1980 examples that I have seen, I don't think Izy started over every year like Tula did with the AKSU. Did the numbers start over for the AK74 in late '79/80 as well? In the reference section, there is that 1979 AK74N with an apparent 200K serial number, but there might be a '1' hiding in front...
Help me out.
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