Publisher's blurb: This is a list of 1001 objects of value which are not only not the conventional coins and jewels, but are often rather impractical to lug back to town or somewhere else where they can be sold. Some of them are heavy, some delicate, some just immense, but all of them are more inconvenient than a sack of gold coins and a pocket full of gems. And all of them, of course, are therefore much more interesting than coins and gems that are little more than abstract numbers.