Goldman's collection also includes a fancy, intense yellow diamond pendant, weighing 67.87 carats.

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Among the colored diamond highlights is an oval-cut fancy intense yellow, internally flawless diamond of 68.35 carats with excellent polish and symmetry.

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These are alternated by two similarly-set diamond flowerheads, each mounted with a brilliant-cut diamond weighing 2.02 and 2.01 cts. to the marquise-cut diamond petals, interspersed by connecting links of pear-shaped fancy vivid and fancy intense diamonds of yellow and orange hues and diamonds of foliate motif.

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The yellow metal has suffered from a combination of intense profit taking, technical selling, and an improved stock market, which has zapped capital ahead of a possible fiscal cliff deal.

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The golden yellow hue of this large pear-shaped stone is so intense and so deep that the Gemological Institute of America ranks it among the rarest of gemstones in its class.

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