Penniless woman finds orange pearl worth tens of thousands of pounds in her meal
Kodchakorn Tantiwiwatkul had bought sea snails for 70 baht (£1.65) from a local market for dinner in Satun, Thailand, when she made the shocking discovery. She found a round orange object inside one the shells and was gobsmacked when she learnt it was in fact a six gram Melo pearl, that measures 1.5cm in diameter, and depending on its quality could be worth a small fortune. Melo pearls are produced by predatory sea snails called Volutidae and usually found in South China Sea and Andaman Sea off the coast of Myanmar.
Source: mirror.co.uk