Squaregrouper
Kragaphile
Nothing leads me to beleive it isn’t anyway. But I am honestly not enough of an expert to tell a good fake and a real one apart. Either way I’d take any Krag for $400 in good shape and laugh all the way home. But a real carbine I am sure is worth well North of $1000.
A SRS confirmed authentic '98 Carbine would be in the $4-6000+ range.
As stated earlier, there are so many fake '98 carbines out there, they are all assumed to be fakes until proven otherwise. Conversely, a '95/'96 carbine has a very distinct stock which could not be modified from a '96 rifle, so they were rarely faked. All '99s were carbines.