A quick google showed that the estimated value of the British crown jewels is between $4-6 Billion.

The lost Chinese heirloom seal of the realm could be worth a lot more than that if found and auctioned because both China and Taiwan want it.

About that stock ownership based wealth calculations... that's basically just the amount of stocks owned times the current price or is it not? If it is, how would that lead to a somehwat accurate estimate if someone owns like a quarter of an entire enterprise?

And?

What and?

I clearly stated that the crown jewels aren't worth that much compared to Elon and Vlad's 200B+

The heirloom seal of the realm would be priceless

the queen doesn't own the crown jewels like some asset she could sell on somebay

This post was edited by TheOnlyDenny on Mar 29 2022 01:22pm

the king of saudi arabia

I wish I had 1/10th a percent that some of these people had

Oh well guess I can dream

that wasn't my point. i'm not saying the English Crown's wealth approaches Musk's, i used them as an example that's well known of Kings and Queens holding items of historical value and lands (the crown's land holdings are estimated at $12bn) that have a lot of value. i'm sure they're not as rich as Musk, but im also sure that people like the Saudi Royal family are, and are 100% not public about the riches in historical items and lands in the same way the Queen is. who knows what old middle eastern crusade era treasures the Saudi's have locked away, or how you'd even estimate things like the oil reserve value on land that they hold under royal ownership. people call Musk the richest man because estimating his value is fairly easy.

edit: and im not sure how a 4-6$ bn value was even arrived at, given its hard if not impossible to value items of such historical value. maybe they used a combination of raw prices of the gems and gold/silver, maybe they compared them to similar items with similar gemstones. they have like a 100+ carot sapphire among many other exceedingly rare gems. it will never sell so its a bit of a moot point but anyways.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Mar 29 2022 02:04pm

In the case of oil I don't think the Saudi king can simply claim all of it because it's a natural resource that belongs to the country and citizens these days would revolt if the royals would simply take it.

Although it's true that the Saudi king makes sure he gets his share, he's ranked 3rd on the list of royalty by net worth (net worth $18 Billion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_royalty_by_net_worth

I wasn't aware that the royals only had one item