A rare Cadbury‘s golden egg commissioned 43 years ago for a calamitous national treasure hunt has sold for a staggering £123,500.
A dozen certificates entitling the finder to a 250g decorative egg were buried across Britain in perspex caskets for the 1983 contest.
Participants had to unravel cryptic clues in a book called ‘Conundrum – The Cadbury’s Creme Egg Mystery’ to find the secret locations of the small eggs made from gold.
But the chocolate company was forced to call off the competition due to the number of complaints from landowners enraged at hordes of hunters digging up private property and protected sites.
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