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Reminds of the fake "sealed" authentic NES cartridges going for thousands of dollars or more on Ebay. It is a very lucrative business for scammers.

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Reminds me of a friend that was selling "signed" comic books in high school. He did it for pocket money, infrequently and never exceeding $50 profit.

And there were many before him. Wikipedia writes that "in 2016, a relic of True Cross held by Waterford Cathedral in Ireland, was radiocarbon dated to the 11th century by Oxford University."[1]

Authentic collectibles are a timeless scam.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross

Lol, it is a running joke that there are enough fragments of the "true" cross to build a forest.

I prefer the version that says "There are enough pieces of the true cross to build Noah's Ark."

Even funnier to me, there are relics of real people around, it used to be a big thing historically. So there's some saints or whatever where there's 3 or more "arm of X" floating around, multiple heads for the same person, all kinds of fun stuff.

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