| The coronation crown featured large balas rubies, surrounded by emeralds, pearls, oriental sapphires, and rubies. |
| But in the battle in which balas was overthrown, the Egyptian king also received his death wound. |
| Set with three balas rubies, pearls, and a central diamond, the Three Brothers passed among European royalty to raise money for armies until bought by the Tudors. |
| In the inventory of the crown jewels of France, the price of balas rubies is four or five times less than that of spinels. |
| The passage offers a poetic description of the Buddhas and their former adornments of painted robes and balas rubies. |
| The crown is lavishly decorated with twenty pearls and ninety-six gemstones including sapphires, rubies, balas rubies, emeralds and lynx sapphires. |
