Olympic Hockey Pins: 1992 Russian Hockey Nations Pin

Thursday, March 20, 2014

1992 Russian Hockey Nations Pin

This is an "unofficial" pin, but those that have followed this blog for a while know that I like all Olympic hockey pins, official or not. The pin depicts a hockey skater and bears the flags of some of the teams that participated in the 1992 Albertville Olympic hockey tournament: United States, Finland, Russia, Canada and Sweden. The additional countries that competed, but whose flags are not shown, are Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Norway, Switzerland, Poland and Italy. I like the pin because the Russians, or actually the Unified Team, actually won the hockey gold medal in 1992. The value of this pin is probably $5.00 USD, but because so many collectors do not bother with the non-cloisonné Russian pins you just might be able to get it for less.

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$$ Olympic Pin Values $$

With nearly every post I try to give an idea of the value of the Olympic pin(s) that are highlighted in the post. I have been a collector for many years, and during that time I have tracked the sale of hundreds of Olympic hockey pins. The values that I post on this blog are based on this research and also, most certainly, are affected by my own subjective feelings about the pin(s), so take them with a grain of salt. Of course, the true value of a pin is what a buyer is willing to pay and what a seller accepts for the item at any given time.