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Medieval Pilgrims Started the Souvenir Industry 🏅🛤️

2026-06-29 0 Dailymotion

Hundreds of years before airport gift shops, pilgrims walking to Rome were snapping up mass-produced lead badges — and counterfeiters were already faking them within a generation. The souvenir hustle is older than you think. Did you know the world's first tourist trinkets were actually religious fraud?