My belief is that if a bayonet, or any other militaria (1911A1s for example), is made as a collectable commerative it will probably never be worth much or as much as a military piece made exclusively for military personnel and distribution. The less made for military issue, the more valuable. I own approximately 20 M9 and not a one is a commerative, nor will I ever own one.
Also the military issue items, because they are military issue items, are probably harder to find in good to excellent condition than commerative even though hundreds or even thousands more were manufactured than commeratives. So just because 5000 USMC Buck M9's were made, that doesn't nessarily mean that there are 4500 more out there than the Ontario USMC commeratives.
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