I found perfectly ROUND egg in shopping in 1-in-a-billion discovery – I could make hundreds from it
A LUCKY shopper found a “one in a billion” egg, and it could be worth thousands of dollars.
Former newsreader Jacqueline Felgate posted the odd video of her perfectly round egg online, leaving social media users shocked.
The egg was bought in a supermarket carton in Melbourne, and is so rare that it’s set to sell for thousands.
The odds of finding an egg perfectly shaped are allegedly one in a billion – making Jacqueline’s find eggs-tremely lucky.
She said: “‘I thought I would share this eggcellent find – in our egg carton we found a round egg, and after a quick google realised it was one in a billion!
“‘Literally one in a billion eggs are round and the last one that was found sold for over $1,400!”
The amazing find has sparked a flurry of egg related puns in response to the rarity.
One found the estimated price absurd: “Folks buying eggs for $1400? That’s eggtortion.”
Another piped in: “Going to check my eggs a bit more closely before they get poached now!
“We could be having a very expensive poached egg brekkie if we cracked it before realising it was a round egg.”
Another egg-themed rarity sold for £1112 on eBay after a minting error left the coin looking like a fried egg.
It sold for more than 100 times its original value thanks to its unusual look.
The 12-sided coin, which launched in 2017, is made with two metal rings – the outside is made from nickel-brass, while the inside is nickel plated brass alloy.
The inner circle is supposed to fit perfectly in the centre of the coin but this particular £1 has been mis-struck.
Rather than being circular, the silver-coloured part of the coin is actually oblong and bleeds into the outer ring on the tails side.
As a result, it’s caused the outer ring to bleed into the middle on the other side of the coin, cutting it close to the Queen’s nose.
This kind of minting error is known as the “fried egg” among collectors because of its similarity to the breakfast favourite.