{"id":143100,"date":"2021-10-29T10:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=143100"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:10:44","slug":"woman-discovers-diamond-she-almost-threw-in-bin-is-worth-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/woman-discovers-diamond-she-almost-threw-in-bin-is-worth-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman discovers diamond she ‘almost threw in bin’ is worth \u00a32 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A pensioner was amazed to find that the diamond she was about to bin during a clearout is worth \u00a32 million.<\/p>\n

The stone was bought at a car boot sale many years ago by a woman in her 70s who had dismissed it as being worthless, the Mirror.<\/p>\n

But she was convinced to get it valued by a neighbour where she was given the incredible news that the diamond was "off the scale" in terms of wealth.<\/p>\n

Mark Lane, of Featonby\u2019s Auctioneers in North Shields, told the BBC that the woman came off the street into his shop saying: "She just thought she would bring it in as she was passing."<\/p>\n

He continued: "It had been in a box along with her wedding band and a number of low-value costume jewellery items.<\/p>\n

"We saw quite a large stone, bigger than a pound coin, and I thought it was a CZ [cubic zirconia, a synthetic diamond lookalike].<\/p>\n

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"It sat on my desk for two or three days until I used a diamond tester machine. We then sent it off to our partners in London before it was certified by experts in Antwerp, Belgium, who confirmed it is 34 carat."<\/p>\n

The diamond is larger than a \u00a31 coin and Mr Lane said it is the biggest that he has seen in five years running the business.<\/p>\n

He said that the woman wanted to remain anonymous but she told him she enjoyed going to car boot sales and never for a minute thought it was a real diamond.<\/p>\n

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