Not everything gets more expensive! Twenty years ago when I first gave up teaching to focus on selling meteorites, there were only a couple of dozen known to Science. If you could find someone with a piece they were willing to cut up, you'd pay around £1000 /g. Now, over 300 lunar meteorites have been found. Some, of course, are in museums or private collections: others, originating in Antarctica, are off limits. Even so, the price of a decent specimen puts them within any collector's budget.
The sample I'm holding here has a mass of over 4g, yet - coming as it does from a large strewn field - I've just been able to sell it for the price of a decent meal out for two (with Champagne!)
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