Golden passport

Golden Passport is a gold bar given to VIP people in the Mongol Empire.

Description
Gently resting it on the table, he peeled back the layers to reveal a flat bar of dull gold. It appeared very old. It bore a hole at one end, and its surface was covered in a cursive script. On a side it had an inscription that said “By the strength of the eternal heaven, holy be the Khan’s name. Let he who pays him not reverence be killed.” In Chinese, it is called a paitzu. In Mongolian, a gerege.

A traveler bearing this superpassport could demand horses, supplies, men, boats, anything from the lands governed by Kublia Khan. To refuse such aid was punishable by death. A khan granted it to ambassadors in the service of the empire.

Sigma Force
Vigor Verona had one of the relics in his possession when he met Sigma Force in Istanbul.