The round egg was discovered at Fenton Farm in January by egg handler, Alison Greene. 

Greene told BBC that in her three years working at the farm, handling around 30,000 eggs a week, she had never seen anything quite like it. Knowing she’d found a truly special egg, the spherical shell was preserved in salt, before it was handed to Bearnes Hampton Littlewood Auctioneers.

Greene figured that the egg was never going to be eaten, but would be purchased for the novelty of it, however, even she was shocked by how the auction went, given she was hoping for at least £10. “It felt like watching one of my children in a sports race when everyone was bidding. It was just brilliant. There were people in the room bidding as well and to everyone that did bid, I’m just very, very grateful,” Greene said.

The perfectly round egg ended up bringing in a whopping £420, or roughly $550. All proceeds went towards the Devon Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Services charity.