Interesting "Coin"...

A few months ago, my granduncle came to see me. he had heard I was interested in coins, and he's always beena hoarder, so he brought a few in for me to have a look at. Most of them were quite recent and not all that interesting, but one stood out. He always thought it was some kind of ancient coin, but I saw fairly quickly that it wasn't even a coin. That was about all I knew though, as I had never seen anything like it before. After a bit of online research, I managed to pin it down as a papal bulla from the pontificate of Innocent IV.

Papal bulla were basically documents of great importance issued by the papacy. They were written on vellem, which was then sealed. A cord was then attached, and this was threaded through a lead seal called the bull. Hence, papal bull. The obverse would have the name of the pope, and the reverse SS Peter and Paul. The design of the bulla remained the same for over a thousand years.

Pope Innocent was elected pope in 1243 and died in 124.

So...not an ancient coin, but pretty interesting nonetheless. And with a value of at least €600 (or so I'm told), a good-sight more valuable than any of my actual ancient coins!

Anyone have anything that was initially thought to eb an ancient coin?