A number of individual gemstones are famous in their own right, either because of their size and beauty or because of the people who owned or wore them.
Patricia Emerald,[9] 632 carats uncut, dihexagonal (12 sided); discovered in Colombia in 1920, resides in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, US
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