Egg-straordinary spherical egg sold at UK auction for $340

A perfectly round egg fetched £200 ($340) in an auction in the UK in December, reported British media.

The egg-cellent find was first made by a woman in Scotland at the Asda supermarket in August, reported The Daily Mail.

She paid £1.99 for a box of 15 eggs, and discovered that one of them was perfectly round.

She contacted British auction house Thomson Roddick Callan, which put the rare find up for sale.

In the same month, Berkshire man Ed Pownall bought the egg for £150 pounds, reported the BBC. He said it was a spontaneous buy after he had a few pints.

He had the egg blown, a process where its contents are removed while its shell remains intact.

In December, he decided to donate it to Oxford-based charity Iuventas Foundation, which initially thought the round egg was a “joke”, the BBC reported.

“I was slightly sceptical at first... It was when a friend sent through a news article (about the egg) that we immediately accepted it,” said foundation spokeswoman Roz Rapp.

Bidding for the egg-ceptional item at the foundation auction ended on Dec 11.

The egg was sold to an unnamed party at £200 – over 1,500 times its original price.

The proceeds would allow the foundation to help young people aged 13 to 25 who are coping with mental health issues, said Ms Rapp.

This is not the first time a spherical egg has made headlines.

The Daily Mail reported in 2015 that one such egg laid by a chicken called Ping Pong was sold for £480 on eBay. Its owner from Essex donated the proceeds to UK-based national charity Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

In June, an Australian woman took to TikTok to show off a perfectly round egg she found in a local supermarket.

In November, a chicken from Buckinghamshire, UK, laid a spherical egg around 2cm in diameter, according to British media The Sun.