worth a king's ransom

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The hoard of almost 500 pieces was a 17th-century goldsmith's stock – worth a king's ransom then and priceless now.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2013

Everyone had been busy burning and burying a creature worth a king’s ransom.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

"It's worth a king's ransom, this bottle. It cost me two large blue-white diamonds, a mechanical bluebird which sang, and a dragon's scale."

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Each tiny bud of that garden was worth a king's ransom, so rich were the jewels which composed it.

From Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 by Johnson, Rossiter

"Now that I have said it, what is my reward?" he asked—and the fair face came up, red and rosy, with "rewards," any one of which was worth a king's ransom.

From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Major, Charles