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The Sancy Blood Diamond: Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World's Most Coveted Gems Trade Paper Press author of Midnight Musings ofThe fascinating six hundred year history of one of the world's most coveted gems and the royal feuds, intrigues, and betrayals it engendered The Sancy Diamond first came to Europe from India in the fourteenth century, and until 1661 it was the largest white diamond and the most concentrated and secure form of wealth in all of Christendom. Alternately believed to impart invincibility to its wearer and to bring ruin to any who owned it, the Sancy cast a