Expensive Diamond In The World
The Expensive Hope Diamond
The Expensive Hope Diamond
Description
The Hope Diamond is a large size, 45.52 carats and 9.10 gram, deep-blue diamond, placed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. The Hope Diamond is blue to the naked eye for the reason that of trace amounts of boron within its crystal formation, other than it shows red phosphorescence following contact to ultraviolet light. It is confidential as a Type IIb diamond, and is well-known for allegedly being cursed. It established its latest setting on November 18th, 2010.
History Of Diamond
According to hollow later accounts, the innovative form
of the Hope Diamond was stolen from an eye of a sculpt figurine of the divinity
Sita, the wife of Rama, the seventh avatar of Vishnu. Though, much like the
"curse of Tutankhamun", this universal type of "legend" was the discovery of
Western writers through the Victorian era, and the exact legends concerning
the Hope Diamond's "cursed origin" were imaginary in the early 20th century
to add air of mystery to the stone and add to its sales application; Near
the beginning in the year 1669, Tavernier vend this
blue diamond along with roughly one thousand other diamonds to King Louis XIV
of France intended for 220,000 livers, the corresponding of 147 kilograms of
pure gold.
The historian Richard Kurin builds a reasonable case for 1653 as the year of
attainment, and an origin from the Kollur mine in Guntur region Andhra Pradesh,
India. Other than the nearly everyone that can be said with confidence is that
Tavernier obtain the blue diamond throughout one of his five voyages to India
between the years 1640 and 1667. The Hope Diamond is a large size, 45.52 carats
and 9.10 gram, deep-blue diamond, placed in the Smithsonian Natural History
Museum in Washington, D.C.
| Name | : | Hope Diamond |
| Origin of diamond | : | India |
| Mine of origin | : | Kollur Mine |
| Current owner | : | Smithsonian Natural History Museum |
| Weight | : | 45.52 carats and 9.10 grams |
| Diamond color | : | Fancy Dark Grayish Blue Diamond |
| Rate of diamond | : | $200-$250 million USD |
| Year of old | : | unknown (merchant Daniel Eliason invented in 1812) |
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