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How do you know the authenticity of diamonds?

Asked by dksf (4points) November 2nd, 2009

I believe that diamonds have GIA certificates and so forth, but aren’t those easily faked, too?

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pinkparaluies's avatar

Just visit your local jeweler. They’ll appraise it for you

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trailsillustrated's avatar

any pawn shop can tell you in a few seconds.

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Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

I don’t – I buy man-made diamonds

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mattbrowne's avatar

Well, heat it up to 3600 C. When it re-crystalizes as graphite, you know it was a diamond. Ah, better follow @pinkparaluies‘s advice.

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kripier's avatar

Well, any GIA report is given a unique ID number. So if the report is fake, you can always go to GIA and ask for a cross reference of your report number. Also, GIA can laser inscribe your diamond so that it’s always marked with its unique ID number – no one can ever fake that diamond again.

GIA is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to diamonds (I’ve been shopping lately so I would know haha) and I would say good luck to anyone trying to counterfeit because everything can always be verified by GIA!

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