Amateur Treasure Hunters Discover Infamous Stolen Room Worth Over $500 Million

The Danish Jubilee Egg 

This egg was enameled by Peter Carl Fabrigé in 1903 and is worth roughly $30,000,000 in modern times, that is if anyone could ever find it. This egg was a gift to the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, and somehow over time, the egg must have disappeared. This is one of 7 missing Fabrigé eggs, and it’s arguably the least expensive of the bunch. While these eggs have disappeared, this next piece was stolen...

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