 In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new record of €275,000, including auction fees.The tins were originally to be valued according to their equivalent weight in gold – $37 each in 1961 – with the price fluctuating according to the market.One of Manzoni's friends, the artist Agostino Bonalumi, claimed that the tins are full not of faeces but plaster.