The shell was sold for US $ 10,000 (a sum that could then have bought a house on Taipei's Chunghsiao East Road) to the Toba Aquarium in Japan. The price broke the world record for a shell, and because this Rumphius's slit shell had been discovered near Taiwan, it ignited a craze for shell collecting on the island.
這顆貝殼後來以美金一萬元、可以買下當時台北忠孝東路一棟透天厝的高價，轉售給了日本鳥羽水族館，創下當年貝殼收藏的世界紀錄；也由於龍宮貝在台灣附近海域發現，引發了國內研究蒐集貝殼的狂潮。