Not that you would ever want to destroy something so nice, but here's an interesting fact...
Those ceramic case metal-top ICs have a pretty high amount of actual gold in them, compared to modern ICs anyway.
Can't be 100% sure as it doesn't have a glass window too look inside but a lot of them have the die attached to a gold metal braiding using gold solder and then there's the gold bond wires as well. Not to mention the metal top and pins are hardgold plated.
They are very high up on the scrap value list. Probably only $1 of gold but that's a lot for a single IC.
The king of IC's for gold recovery (excluding uncommon milspec/medical/RF stuff) is old ceramic Pentium Pro chips which contain around US$5-15 of gold each.