Amsterdam - Famous Diamonds

The largest brilliant is the Cullinan I diamond (530 carats) in the British crown; it was part of the largest rough diamond ever found (the Cullinan, 3,106 carats), which was divided into 105 parts. The second largest brilliant is the Centenary diamond (rough 599 carats, cut 350 carats), found in a mine near Pretoria in 1986. Other well-known large diamonds are the Excelsior (rough 955 carats, divided into 22 brilliants), the Jonker (rough 726 carats, divided into 12 brilliants), the Nizam of Hyderabad (cut 340 carats), the Great Mogul (cut 280 carats), the Jubilee (rough 651 carats, cut 245 carats), the Star of Yakutia (232 carats), the Orloff (cut 200 carats), the Victoria (rough 469 carats, cut 184 carats), the Koh-i-Noor ("Mountain of