这个在餐馆就餐的妇女一口就咬出50颗珍珠

"We've never seen anything like this before," she added. "We've had cases where someone might find one pearl, but this is the first time someone's found 50."

They cleaned the pearls off and put them in a cup for Elliot to take home, Hergest said.

"It was her oyster, so they're her pearls," Hergest said. "It's like winning the lottery. She was so excited to have them."

A Tennessee woman is 50 pearls richer today after discovering the jewels when she bit into an oyster while lunching at Puckett's Boat House in Franklin, Tennessee.

Toni Elliot, 53, thought she hurt her tooth Thursday and alerted her server Eric Horton, the restaurant's general manager Greg Hargest told ABC News today.

"I went over to see if she was okay, and she goes, 'Oh yes, I just found this pearl in my mouth!'" Hergest said. "She started pulling out more pearls from her mouth, and the whole table started laughing."

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A Virginia Beach woman who picked up a couple bags of clams from a seafood shack was shocked when she discovered a rare, purple pearl inside one of the clam shells.

"I bit down on it and I pulled it out and said, 'Look at this,'" Kathleen Morelli told the Delmarva Daily Times.

She bought the clams at the Great Machipongo Clam Shack in Nassawadox, according to the newspaper.

Courtesy Joe Morelli

PHOTO: Kathleen Morelli found this pearl in a clam at a clam shack in Virginia.

Morelli thought the pearl was pretty, but didn't think much of it until her husband started researching.

"From what I've read, one in 5,000 clams will grow a pearl," Joe Morelli told the Delmarva Daily Times. He said his wife's pearl could fetch $3,000.

"Which is not bad for a $15 bag of clams," Kathleen Morelli said.