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This Category contains the Top 10 Diamonds. The Top is based on visitors VOTES. You can VOTE or Suggest your favorite Diamond.

1. Moussaieff Red Diamond

The Moussaieff Red Diamond is a diamond measuring 5.11 carats (1.022 g) with a triangular brilliant cut (sometimes called a trillion or a trilliant cut), rated in color as Fancy Red. The Moussaieff Red is reported to have been found by a Brazilian farmer in the mid-1990s as a rough of approximately 13.9 carats (2.78 g). read more...

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2. Cullinan I - Great Star of Africa

The Cullinan diamond is the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found, at 3,106.75 carats (621.35 g).
The largest polished gem from the stone is named Cullinan I or the Great Star of Africa, and at 530.2 carats (106.0 g) was the largest polished diamond in the world until the 1985 discovery of the Golden Jubilee Diamond, 545.67 carats (109.13 g), also from the Premier Mine. The Cullinan diamond was found by Frederick Wells. read more...

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3. Excelsior Diamond

The Excelsior Diamond was found on June 30, 1893 at the Jagersfontein Mine by a worker while loading a truck. The man was able to hide the diamond from the supervisors but delivered it to the manager of the mine himself. Until 1905, when the larger Cullinan diamond was found, the Excelsior was the largest known diamond in the world. It had a blue-white tint and weighed 971¾ carats (194.2 g). It was ultimately cut into ten stones weighing from 13 to 68 carats. (2.6 to 13.6 g). Immediately after its discovery the news spread around the world. read more...

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4. Koh-i-Noor

Believed to have been presented by Sultan Ala-ed-in to two brothers but captured on 4th may 1526 by Humayin, at which point it was stated to be valued at half the daily expense of the whole world. It arrived in England in 1850 and was presented to Queen Victoria on 3rd of July. It originally weighed 186 carats(190metric) and took 38 days to cut to its present form at a cost then of $ 8000. It is currently an Oval Brilliant of 108.93 metric carats. The name means Mountain of Light.The stone is currently set into the Maltese Cross in the crown made for the Queen mother in 1937. read more...

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5. Tiffany Yellow Diamond

It is believed that Tiffany Yellow Diamond was found either in 1877 or 1878. It certainly went to France to be cut, yielding a cushion cut brilliant of 125.51 cts. It was puchased by Tiffany & Co for $18,000 and the stone was shipped to the USA in 1879. It is one of the largest rare Deep Canary Yellows in the world. It has been on display almost continuously since 1896 at the Tiffany Store in New York and exhibited at many great international shows. read more...

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6. Jubilee Diamond

A colourless cushion cut stone weighing 245.35 metric carats, ranking as the third largest cut stone in the world. It weighed 650.8 carats in the rough and was discovered in 1895. Originally called The Reitz, It was renamed The Jubilee in 1896 in honour of The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. It was planned to present it to her but this never happened. Shortly after being displayed in The Paris Exhibition of 1900, the stone was sold at a value of 7,000,000 francs to an Indian Industrialist and Philanthropist, Sir Dorabji Jamsetji Tata. read more...

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7. Wittelsbach Diamond

This unusual stone was first recorded in the late 17th Century and must certainly be of Indian origin. It is of an unusual and rare dark blue colour. This stone weighs 35.5cts and has been cut in an unusual oval of 50 facets.It was sold in 1931 in an attempt to assist the fortunes of the deposed Royal family of Bavaria in whose possession it had been until the Rebublic was formed. On 10 December 2008 the Wittelsbach Diamond was sold at a Christie's auction in London for 16.4 million pounds Sterling, or US$ 23.4 million, to London-based jeweler Laurence Graff. To date this is the highest price ever paid at auction for a diamond. read more...

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8. Millennium Star Diamond

The Millennium Star is a famous diamond owned by De Beers. At 203.04 carats (40.608 g), the world's second largest known top-color (D), internally and externally flawless, pear-shaped diamond. It was purchased by De Beers during the height of the country's Civil War that took place in the early to mid-nineties. It took over three years for workers of the Steinmetz Diamond Group to produce the classic pear form. The actual cutting was done using lasers. read more...

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9. Hope Diamond

The Hope Diamond is a large, 45.52 carats (9.10 g), fancy deep blue diamond, currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. The Hope Diamond is blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within its crystal structure. It is classified as a Type IIb diamond, and is famous for supposedly being cursed. read more...

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10. Sancy Diamond

The Sancy is an Indian stone of 55.23cts, named after Nicholas Harlay de Sancy. It is believed that this stone was sold to Henry III of France as part of a larger deal in 1589, the year he was assassinated but even that part of the history is muddy. After 1642 it became part of the Crown Jewels of France and was known as Mazarin I and in 1691 was valued at 600,000 livres. The Sancy was bought in 1906 by William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor. The prominent Astor family possessed it for 72 years until the 4th Viscount Astor sold it to the Louvre for $1 million in 1978. The Sancy now rests in the Apollo Gallery, sharing attention with the likes of the Regent and the Hortensia. read more...

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