I told you to put that B.B. gun away!

An ancient gold cup is expected to fetch some 500,000 pounds at auction ($1 million Canadian)when it goes on the block next month.

The cup was owned by John Webber who had it in a shoe box with some other childhood relics. His grandfather gave him the 5.5-inch (14-centimetre) high mug to play with when he was a child, back in 1945.

He assumed the golden cup was brass, but he decided to get it valued when he was moving house last year and was told it was actually a rare piece of ancient Persian treasure, beaten out of a single sheet of gold hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus Christ.

Apparently, John said he used the cup for target practice with his air gun.

Crap. All my parents ever gave me to play with was a G.I. Joe that our dog quickly turned into an amputee.