It’s the dream. A retired painter and decorator looked around in his attic and found his forgotten collection of Pokémon cards, then sold them at auction for £1.56 million ($2.09 million).

The man, who asked auction house Ewbank’s (via BBC News ) not to publicly identify him, said he only remembered he even had a long-abandoned Pokémon card collection after he read a news story about a single card selling for more than £6,000 ($8024). In response, he went up into the roof to see if he might have anything stored up there that could be worth anything, and stumbled on a fortune. “I know people always talk about finding treasure in the attic,” he told the auction house, “but in my case it’s literally true.”

The guy had gotten into collecting the cards in the late ’90s when his son was swapping the TCG at school. “I thought they looked nice,” he explained, “and wondered whether they might be a good investment.” Turns out, yes.…