The Largest & Most Famous Diamonds

Diamonds Index

Table of Large Diamonds

Rank	Weight	Name	Colour	Shape
0	1E+34*	Lucy Centauri		Spheroidal
1	616	Kimberley Octahedron	Yellow	Uncut
2	545.67	Golden Jubilee (previously Large Brown)	Brown	Cushion
3	530.20	Cullinan I	White	Pear
4	407.48	Incomparable	Brownish Yellow	Triolette
5	317.40	Cullinan II	White	Cushion
6	273.85	Centenary	White (D)	Heart
7	245.55	Jubilee	White	Cushion
8	234.50	De Beers	Light Yellow	Cushion
9	205.07	Red Cross	Yellow	Square Brilliant
10	203.04	Millennium Star	White (D)	Pear
11	202	Black Star of Africa	Black
12	200.87		Yellow	Pear
13	200.07	La Luna	White (D)	Heart
14	198.28.87	Great Chrysanthemum	Fancy Brown	Pear
15	189.6	Orlov (Orloff)	Near White	Rose
16	185	Darya-i-Nur	Pale Pink	Rectangular
17	184.5	Jacob	White	Oval
18	183.00	Moon	Near White	Round
19	180.85		Yellow	Briolette
20	170.49	Star of Peace	Brownish Yellow	Pear
21	160.18	Table of Islam	Black	Emerald Cut
22	152.16		Silver Cape	Rectangular Old Brilliant
23	151.91	Hope of Africa	Fancy Yellow	Cushion
24	150		Yellow	Emerald Cut
25	141.23			Pear
26	140.50	Regent	Faint Blue	Cushion
27	137.82	Paragon	White	Kite
28	137.27	Florentine	Light Yellow	Double Rose
29	137.02	Premier Rose	White	Pear
30	137
31	135.92	Queen of Holland	D*	Cushion
32	135.45		Cape	Old Cushion
33	135	Mountain of Splendour
34	133.03	Algeiba Star	Yellow	Square Brilliant
35	132.42	Golden Hue	Yellow	Cushion
36	130.00	Great Brazilian	White
37	128.80	Star of the South	Brownish Pink	Cushion
38	128.51	Tiffany	Yellow	Cushion
39	128.25	Niarchos	White	Pear
40	127.01	Portuguese Blue	White; Strong Blue Fluorescence	Asscher (Square Cushion)
41	126	Moon of the Mountains
42	125.33	Jonker	White	Emerald Cut
43	123.93		Silvery Cape	Cushion
44	123.00	Stewart	Yellow	Brilliant
45	121.90		Yellow	Octahedron
46	118.00	Meister	Yellow	Cushion
47	116.60	Vainer Briolette	Yellow	Briolette
48	115.83	Al-Nader	White	Pear
49	115.06	Taj-i-Mah	White	Mogul Cut
50	115.00	Edna Star	White	Emerald Cut
51	114.64		Yellow	Briolette
52	114.28		Silvery Cape	Old Cushion Cut
53	114.03		Yellow	Cushion
54	112	African Yellow	Yellow
55	111.59	Earth Star	Coffee	Pear
56	111.22		White	Heart
57	109.26	Cross of Asia	Champagne	Rectangular Radiant
58	108.04	Anon	Yellow	Emerald Cut
59	107.46	Rojtman	Yellow	Cushion
60	107.07	Cartier	White	Pear
61	106.00		White	Pear
62	105.60	Koh-i-Noor	White	Oval
63	105.54	Soleil D'or	Yellow	Emerald Cut
64	105.51	Star of Egypt	White	Emerald Cut
65	104.95	Golden Door	Yellow	Pear
66	104.88	Deepdene	Yellow (Irradiated)	Cushion
67	104.52		Treated Yellow	Cushion
68	101.84		White	Pear
69	101.25
70	101.14		White	Kite
71	100.52	Sunrise	Yellow	Emerald Cut
72	99.52	Shah of Persia	Yellow	Cushion
73	85.93	Stern's Star	Yellow
74	81.83		Pink	Oval
75	72	Nepal	Pink	Old Mine
	67.89	Victoria-Transvaal	Champagne / Light Brown	Pear
	67.50	Black Orloff (Orlov) or Eye of Brahma	Black	Cushion
	59.60	Steinmetz "Jewel in the Crown"	Pink
	55.09	Kimberley?	Champagne	Emerald Cut
	54.12	Empress Eugenie		Pear
	45.52	Hope	Blue	Cushion
	40.70	Dresden	Green	Pear
	33.74	Amsterdam	Black	Pear
	35.56	Wittelsbach	Blue	Old Mine
	35.27	Sultan of Morocco	Greyish Blue	Cushion / Round?
	30.82	Blue Heart (previously Unzue, Couer, and erroneously Eugenie Blue)	Blue	Heart
	27.64	Heart of Eternity	Blue	Heart
	25.02	Rose of Dubai	Pink	Pear
	25	Transvaal Blue	Blue	Pear
	23.56	Williamson	Pink	Round
	20	Hortensia	Pink	Kite
	9.01	Condé Pink	Pink	Pear
	6.04	Moussaieff Blue	Blue	Octagonal
	5.11	Moussaieff Red	Red	Trilliant
	0.90	Hancocks Red	Red

Notes
1E+34 = 1 x 10³⁴ = 10 bilion trillion trillion carats.

Colour Summary
Of the above numbered diamonds, 23 are shown as white or near white, 26 yellow, 1 brown, 2 brownish yellow, 2 black, 2 blue, 1 pink, 1 coffee, 1 champagne, and 5 are of unspecified colour.
The list contains a disproportionate number of coloured diamonds, although many of those shown as a yellow may actually be near colourless as only one is described as "fancy yellow". One factor which may influence the number of coloured diamonds listed is that coloured diamonds are rare and attractive, and would more easily become famous.

Coloured Diamonds

Diamond 4C's Tour
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Price v. Quality of a 1 Carat Diamond or
Price v. Quality of a Half Carat Diamond

More Information
Our thanks go to Ryan Thompson for providing a number of corrections and additions to our original table. You may wish to take a look at his site www.famousdiamonds.tripod.com. You may notice it's very rare for us to place a link on our site to external sites, so this link is indeed a compliment to Ryan.
D* = The Queen of Holland is usually noted as being blue, but according to Ryan Thompson, it is actually D colour, it is possible that it has some blue fluorescence.

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