A symbol can circulate long after the circumstances that gave it meaning have been forgotten. It can pass between people who have never read the same page and never intended the same thing by possessing it. Circulation preserves a mark; it does not preserve an interpretation. We should not demand from exchange a kind of memory it was never designed to keep.
The transferable artifact associated with this archive is called a husk within the fiction. The name does not confer a special financial property. It describes a separation: an object can change owners while the experience that produced its significance remains untransferred. A receipt can establish that a transaction occurred. It cannot establish that the purchaser understood the thing acquired.
Price is one account of what people will exchange under particular conditions. It is not a general measurement of truth, intelligence, cultural importance, or the sincerity of a writer. Refusing that confusion does not make an object priceless. It makes our claim about the object smaller and more exact. The archive must not use a philosophical vocabulary to disguise ordinary uncertainty about a speculative asset.
A seal has a similar boundary. It can bind a statement to a key without making the statement honest. That boundary is not a defect to be repaired by stronger rhetoric. It is part of what the instrument tells us. Ask whether the mark verifies. Then ask whether the sentence survives comparison with its evidence. Do not substitute the answer to either question for the other.