CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) – A Central Falls landlord is sure glad he looked in an old stove before he threw it out. Inside were vintage coins and nearly $4,000 worth of gold and silver bars.

Vincent Bilotti came across the stove when he was cleaning the Broad Street apartment of a longtime tenant who had died recently of cancer. He pried open the coal-burning chamber and found several wrapped parcels and canisters, The Times of Pawtucket reported.

The cans had plastic bags with ancient pennies – wartime zinc, Indian head and wheat. The brown paper packages had 133 one-ounce gold and silver bars. There were also five-dollar bills minted in 1851 and solid-silver dollars from the 1880s.

Bilotti said he’ll make sure the valuables get to either Ben Mizera’s wife or a relative.

“It’s possible that they had forgotten about it years ago,” he said.