used to authenticate medieval indulgences
which were a profitable way of reducing penance for sins.
According to The Guardian,
each indulgence authenticated by such a seal
reduced the buyer's time in Purgatory by one year and forty days.
Of course, one's time in Purgatory might last hundreds if not thousands of years...
The metal stamp or matrix is shown on the right.
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| Found after spending 500 years buried in a field. |
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