List of famous diamonds
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A number of large or extraordinarily colored diamonds have gained fame, both as exquisite examples of the beautiful nature of diamonds, and because of the famous people who wore, bought, and sold them. A partial list of famous diamonds in history follows.
- The Allnatt Diamond
- The Centenary Diamond
- The Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found at 3106.75 carats (621.35 g), also known as the Star of Africa
- The Darya-ye Noor Diamond, the best known diamond of the Iranian Crown Jewels
- The Deepdene
- The Dresden Green Diamond
- The Dudley Diamond
- The Eugenie Blue Diamond
- The Excelsior Diamond
- The Florentine Diamond
- The Golden Jubilee, the largest faceted diamond ever cut at 545.67 carats (109.13 g)
- The Great Chrysanthemum Diamond
- The Great Mogul Diamond
- The Heart of Eternity Diamond, perhaps the largest Fancy Vivid Blue
- The Hope Diamond, blue and supposedly cursed
- The Hortensia Diamond
- The Idol's Eye
- The Incomparable Diamond
- The Jones Diamond
- The Kimberley Diamond
- The Koh-i-Noor, very old (mentioned in Baburnama of 1526) and surrounded by legend and believed to be the most precious.
- The Lesotho Promise, is the 15th largest diamond, the 10th largest white diamond, and the largest diamond to be found in 13 years
- The Millennium Star, the largest colorless (grade D), flawless diamond
- The Moussaieff Red Diamond, the largest Fancy Vivid Red
- The Nizam Diamond
- The Ocean Dream Diamond, the only known natural Fancy Deep Blue-Green
- The Oppenheimer Diamond
- The Orloff, an Indian rose cut rumored to have served as the eye of a Hindu statue
- The Paragon Diamond
- The Portuguese Diamond
- The Premier Rose Diamond
- The Pumpkin Diamond, perhaps the largest Fancy Vivid Orange
- The Red Cross Diamond
- The Regent Diamond
- The Sancy
- The Shah Diamond, very old yellow diamond (found approximately in 1450 in India), with his own history, currently housed in the Diamond Fund in Kremlin.
- The Spirit of de Grisogono Diamond, the world's largest cut Black
- The Spoonmaker's Diamond, 86-carat diamond housed in Topkapı Palace of Istanbul, Turkey [1]
- The Star of Arkansas
- The Star of the South
- The Steinmetz Pink Diamond, the largest Fancy Vivid Pink
- The Taylor-Burton Diamond
- The Tiffany Yellow Diamond
- The Uncle Sam diamond, the largest discovered in the United States
- The Vargas
[edit] See also
- BPM 37093, a pulsating white dwarf star 50 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus. It is estimated that the decayed star's core contains a 10 decillion (1×1034) carat diamond, approximately 4,000 km (2,500 miles) in diameter.
