I was offered the T72 pictured below for $35K USD about a year ago. It has/had 250km since a complete overhaul, has/had only five shells fired from its main weapon and the main weapon was still live (the tank is in the UK where this is legal...of course I know this would have had to be demilled before entering the US). The tank came with working radios and headsets, as well as a complete set of manuals (I think they were in Russian, but my wife speaks fluent Russian!). The tank was overhauled in an eastern European country and purchased by the UK government (or so I was told). The UK government painted the tank in Iraqi Republican Guard markings and test fired some shells from it. That was all I was told about the tank's history, but it was owned by a serious collector in the UK who told me he could help with the export process. He even invited me to come visit to test drive and inspect before buying, but it never got that far. I started to look into the process to get it into the US, but my wife talked me into buying an M1015A1 instead (basically the same as an M548A1). I have no idea what these tanks sell for in the US so I can't say that $77K sounds high, but that would have meant that I would have had to pay $42K to get it into the US and I can almost guarantee that was not what I was being quoted at the time (customs, shipping, trucking on both ends, demilled, etc.).