Talk:Orlov (diamond)

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This diamond disappeared in the Russian Revolution, didn't it? Sarsaparilla 05:18, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Chronology seems off: when did Orlov make the purchase? The article says that the diamond was taken from India in approximately 1750 and the first buyer was Orlov. The article also suggests that Orlov gave it to Catherine the Great "years" after their relationship, which lasted from approximately 1759 - 1772, and that her first documented setting of it was in 1784. So did it take 25 or so years for the diamond to find a buyer? Perhaps it left India a bit later than 1750. Jlm275 (talk) 06:52, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 01:58, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

"1,4 mln Dutch florins"
This wording is difficult to parse for a standard English speaker; Decimal values are rendered with a period or dot '.' rather than a comma ', - and 'mil.' or 'M' is a much more common abbreviation for 'million' than the relatively non-standard 'mln.'

I would expect the value to be written as 'ƒ1,400,000 Dutch Florins' or '1.4 million Dutch Florins'

- matt lohkamp 04:21, 28 November 2020 (UTC)