Diamonds in the news: Huge Diamond among Dresden Treasures.
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The Green Vault's most famous gem is the 41-carat green diamond, so colored, it's believed, because of prolonged exposure to radioactivity centuries ago. It was purchased by Prince Elector August III in 1742 for the enormous sum of $150,000.
"This is a sister jewel, if you will, to what most of us Americans know as the Hope Diamond that is in the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History," says Jack Kyle, the Jackson exhibition's executive director.
If emeralds are your green gem of choice, there's a hand-carved moor presenting a platter full of the green jewels. He and a similar companion should feel right at home in Jackson.
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