Value is solely in the mind. A pile of gold is absolutely useless in some cases.
Beg to differ Sir, one will always get good mileage from a bag of gold on Earth in any period,
than a bag of moon dust that even the local pawn or jeweller shop can't verify the validity of, much less what it's worth on the money market
Wrong.
This item has what's called provenance in the collecting world. i.e. it has a verified history proving it is genuine.
This bag will very likely appreciate in value with time, likely better than gold.
It's only like the personal item used by the most famous human in history in the most famous event in human history.
I can see your point, and agree with it as a generalization, BUT...
A bag of gold is a bag of gold, and it won't ever change in value unless market forces dictate differently,
history tells us gold is still THE standard,
the hoarders controlling supply and release won't let that privilege go, EVER
Moon dust on the other hand has a high asset risk factor
and it's value can be trashed overnight if, for debate sake
the conspiracy theorists get the upper hand with their proof
(be it true or awesome BS) a competing aerospace giant brings back tons of it in the future
or people lose interest in the novelty, or just too dumbed down to pay attention to the significance
You could argue that this current bag of moon dust was an original, but how would you control the forces of fraud down the track,
with 10 identical bags randomly appearing on the auction circuit?
I'll take the bag of gold thank you very much,
I reckon I could get some good cash from the PCB industry any time,
and a lot of ladies would roll my way on that too,
to suit their decorative habits