Ehh, maybe sometime last year when they first sold out. In the past couple months I've seen 1st edition copper sold for around 300-400 on ebay. Just two weeks ago one sold for 500. A pretty beat up scrvy sold for 300 (nearly a thousand dollar mod). The 1st run aluminum w/o the serials show up for around 150-250 regularly on auction sites. I got a black one for around 180 a few weeks back. There was a brass one selling on eBay for 450 the other day, it's gone now. On a vape trader site there are two guys selling theirs now - the military edition (asking retail) and another dude selling a "custom cerakoted" copper for 350. I was actually thinking about grabbing that one and media blasting the cerakote off, then restoring the finish to its original glory.
I have a purge suicide kings ed, waiting on my see no evil copper pre order.