Lets start with the 20 gauge model.The prefix of 8Z to your serial number indicates that your Browning light weight auto-5 shotgun was made in Belgium in the year 1958.The light weight 12 gauge was made from 1953-1976.All light weight auto-5,12 gauge shotguns had a prefix of the letter L,or the letter G from 1953-1958.After words the prefix had a combination of a number and a letter from 1959-1976.This would appear as 8G,or 72G etc.Please check your light weight model auto-5 shotgun for this,and then we can identify the year of manufacture.
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50-550 usd
Not a valid Browning serial number.
You will have to call Browning with the sn to find out.
With the serial number that you have provided,your Browning auto-5 shotgun in 16 gauge was made in Belgium for Browning in the year 1926.
A Browning over and under is worth about $1,000-1,500 on it own and the fact that it's a Belgium made Browing increases the price significanly. I would say somewhere in the range of $500 to $750 more. The belgium made Browning is the most collectible and popular.
It's the model code for a 12 gauge Magnum.
see the Browning website
42 years old
1973 Belgium
It was made in 1959