money-wise
This isn't the first, and definitely won't be the last piece that sells waaay above its estimated money value.
It was so much speculated about its possible mysterious provenance but in the end the explanation for its whooping price can be much simpler and mundane.
There are many hobbyists and collectors that measure their fortunes not in millions, not in tens of millions and not even in hundreds of millions but in billions and even tens and hundreds of billions. For such persons the monetary price of an item has no significance whatsoever since if they want something they can pay no matter what in order to get it, while their overall fortune is not affected at all. It would be like me wanting badly to get an item estimated at 1 cent and ending up paying 5 or 10 dollars.
And this may be the case here.
Of course this is also a speculation like all the others.
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