Talk:Six Great Nobles/@comment-77.98.238.169-20180807171419/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180808010154

It would vary by orders of magnituded.

Great political or economic power is not always tied up in substantial fungible reserves, especially particular precious metal commodity currency reserves. Secrets, alliances, productive lands and merchant connections, men under arms...these are all potent measures and tools of noble influence and position which probably constitute a much larger proportion of the total wealth of great nobles than their ready cash reserves.

A Great noble should have enough cash on hand to cover sudden expenses and the calling in of outstanding monetary debts. Any more than that is not as useful as what you could be out buying by spending that money.

Probably tens of thousands of gold and thousands of platinum, varying depending on the scale and orientation of your operations. Lots of men under arms means you need a lot of money on hand, productive lands (farms, mines, whatever) means you need less, secrets can be better than cash reserves but may be somewhat hard to 'make change' with, alliances both defray and incurr expenses.