Koh-i-Noor
Also known as Kohinoor, Koh-i-Nur
The is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing . It is currently set in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The diamond originated in the Kollur mine in present day Andhra Pradesh, India. According to the colonial administrator Theo Metcalfe, there is "very meagre and imperfect" evidence of the early history of the Koh-i-Noor before the 1740s. There is no record of its original weight, but the earliest attested weight is 186 old carats (191 metric carats or 38.2 g). The first verifiable record of the diamond comes from a history by Muhammad Kazim Marvi of the 174
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The Koh-i-Noor is one of the world's largest cut diamonds, currently set in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and originated from a mine in present-day India. Its early history before the 1740s is poorly documented, though records show it has been weighed at least as far back as the 17th century.
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Key facts
- Gem.name
- Koh-i-Noor
- Gem.image
- Replica of the Koh-i-Noor (cropped).jpg
- Gem.caption
- Replica of the Koh-i-Noor
- Gem.carats
- 105.602
- Gem.colour
- D (colourless)
- Gem.diamond_type
- IIa
- Gem.cut
- Oval brilliant
- Gem.facets
- 66
- Gem.mine
- Kollur Mine, present-day Andhra Pradesh, India
- Gem.owner
- Charles III in right of The Crown
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Koh-i-noor (after 1852).png
Article
23 sectionsContents
- History
- Legendary origin
- Early history
- In Maharaja Ranjit Singh's possession
- In Gulab Singh's possession
- Worn by child emperor Duleep Singh
- Surrender to Queen Victoria
- Journey to the United Kingdom
- The Great Exhibition
- 1852 re-cutting
- Crown Jewel
- Ownership dispute
- India
- Pakistan
- Afghanistan
- Proposed compromises
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
The is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing . It is currently set in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The diamond originated in the Kollur mine in present day Andhra Pradesh, India. According to the colonial administrator Theo Metcalfe, there is "very meagre and imperfect" evidence of the early history of the Koh-i-Noor before the 1740s. There is no record of its original weight, but the earliest attested weight is 186 old carats (191 metric carats or 38.2 g). The first verifiable record of the diamond comes from a history by Muhammad Kazim Marvi of the 1740s invasion of Northern India by Afsharid Iran under Nader Shah. Marvi notes the Koh-i-Noor as one of many stones on the Mughal Peacock Throne that Nader looted from Delhi.
The diamond then changed hands between various empires in south and west Asia, until being given to Queen Victoria after the Second Anglo-Sikh War and the British East India Company's annexation of the Punjab in 1849, during the reign of the then 11-year-old Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, Duleep Singh. The young king ruled under the shadow of the Company ally Gulab Singh, the first Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, who had previously possessed the stone.