the 76-carat Archduke Joseph diamond,
the diamond was named after Archduke Joseph August of Austria, a prince of the Hungarian line of the Habsburgs, who reportedly deposited it in a bank vault in 1933, decades later it surfaced at auction in 1961 and again at Christie's in November 1993, when it sold for £4 million, now for the big one, this time the diamond was sold to an anonymous bidder by the Christie's auction house in Geneva for a cool £13 million, which I guess was not a bad investment, it is a shame we missed it, Diana would have loved it!
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