What to Spend Gold on

Ideas for things in the market or city for adventurers to spend their gold on.

Gold:

Hire 50 mercenaries (skilled hirelings) for trouble-free day in town
5 longswords and a dulcimer
5 pounds of saffron and a book
5 longswords and art object (25 gp) - black velvet mask stitched with silver thread
A half-share in an elephant
2 x heavy infantry starter kit (ring mail, maul, sixteen javelins, dagger)
Gemstone (50 gp) - zircon (transparent pale blue-green), a mastiff and thieves' tools
A pound of gold, a halberd and a halberd
Leather barding and a riding saddle, hire of an untrained hireling for 125 days and 2500 coach cab trips within a city
A riding horse and passage on a ship for 250 miles