How do you handle jewelry and valuable art as a GM?

[dragoner]

Doing near future sci-fi, Art is probably the single most valuable object, gems and jewelry, not so much. No real system, however.

 

[Jd Smith1]

A typical circlet is a pound or two. Fancy ones can be up to 6 lb; the coronation crown (St Edward's Crown) of england is about 4.9 lb (2.23kg). Queen Elisabeth's Imperial State Crown, when jeweled was 2.3 lb (1.03kg).

True. But I don't put crowns in loot. They get rings, bracelets, necklaces. Post My fantasy system & settings use a silver-based economy, so the loot values are about 10% of a D&D campaign.

And the tech level is later than the Viking era.

 

[aramis erak]

True. But I don't put crowns in loot. They get rings, bracelets, necklaces. Post My fantasy system & settings use a silver-based economy, so the loot values are about 10% of a D&D campaign.

And the tech level is later than the Viking era.

Note that the jewelry of the viking era is still not uncommon in the current era, especially since it turns into Scots and Irish as well.

The basis of the currency affects the prices, not the weights.

Given that jewelry is always a worn object, and may or may not be jeweled... linguistic drift... the gem on the jewelry is only a jewel once mounted to it. Many necklaces are known to be multiple ounces.