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Compare with [[Grail in The Garbage]], [[Hidden in Plain Sight]], [[Mundane Utility]], [[Useful Book]], and [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' Pegasus is shown via [[Flash Back]] discovering the Pharaoh's tomb during a journey to Egypt. His next move? Using it to make Egyptian God Cards to be sold to the masses.

** Then again, it's [[Justified Trope|justified]] in this case; he was manipulated into making the cards by the tomb's protector spirit as a conduit to bring the tomb's [[Sealed Evil in A Can]] to the modern world. And, as we see in the Battle City arc, he at least donated some of his findings to museums.

* The Book of Darkness in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' is a powerful [[Artifact of Doom]] capable of granting world-destroying powers to any mage. When it landed in Hayate's possession, she took good care of it not because she knew what it was, but because it looked really pretty in her bookshelf.

* One of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s short stories, "Chivalry", involves the holy grail being found by an old lady in a thrift store. The ancient knight who comes in search of the grail discovers that she knows ''exactly'' what it is, and keeps it for no greater reason than because it looks nice on her mantle.

* ''[[The Prince and The Pauper]]'', the court officials keep asking the false Prince, Tom Canty, about the whereabouts of the Great Seal of England, hidden by the real Prince Edward Tudor just before their escapades began. Despite repeating question the disguised Tom has no idea what they're talking about. In the end, {{spoiler|Edward returns and proves his true identity by at once pointing out what it was. Tom admits he'd been using every day as a nutcracker}}.

* Inverted in ''The Ingenious Hidalgo [[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]] of La Mancha'', where the main character takes genuinely mundane things for this.

* In ''[[Gor|Nomads of Gor]]'', the (last) egg of a male Priest-King is hidden amongst the Wagon Peoples. Kamchak of the Tuchuks uses it as a footstool.