>Officially classed as "purplish pink" in color, it is the most valuable diamond of its shade ever to appear at auction, according to Sotheby's. The auction house's head of jewelry for the Americas, Quig Bruning, said in a statement that the stone was "joining the ranks of the most important diamonds in history."

It's a fucking diamond and not important to history in any way.

The only diamond important to history IMO is the Koh-i-Noor (at the moment anyways) given the political turmoil around it.