All along I knew it was going to get to this point. But I had to pick away at the outside of it before I could get to the heart of it. That's the kind of game you're constantly playing. Money itself is a sketchy issue in animation collecting. When dealing with rare cultural artifacts worth astronomical sums, the precise dollar value of a piece is a somewhat nebulous number and often irrelevant to its owner.
Several factors determine a cel's worth.
Mickey had evolved into the goodest of good guys, and things were about to get a lot more complicated after that. He balks at gauging its actual worth but says he would insure it for seven figures, should he ever allow it to leave its place of safekeeping. But that doesn't matter, because if you came in and offered me a million dollars for it, I wouldn't sell it to you. You don't sell the jewel out of the center of the crown. That cel is just one of several worth enough to trade for a small mansion in Glad's collection.