Q:
Chalice of Glory
A:
It would have given you 5000 Glory. Glory was a PvP currency that was removed in Feature Patch 1 when they changed how all the PvP rewards would work. There was a lot of warning (at least a couple of months) that the currency was going to be removed so people could spend it all, but unfortunately if you missed that, then your Glory was essentially deleted.
EDIT: My answer assumed you originally purchased the game more than about a year ago. If it was since then, you would have gotten 5000 PvP Rank Points, and you can see that by going to Heart of the Mists and looking where your exp bar would normally be. Or by looking in the PvP menu (crossed swords icon, top left of screen).
(edited by Olvendred.3027)
For a little further clarification, the Chalice of Glory now gives 5,000 PvP rank points, which are different from Glory. Glory was the old PvP reward currency, which has been removed from the game.
The problem with Glory was that playing a lot of PvP and getting a lot of Glory didn’t really progress you in the rest of the game. Armor/weapon skins you earned in PVP couldn’t be used in PvE or WvW, for instance. They phased Glory out early last year in favor of the current system.
For what it’s worth, if you don’t PvP, your Glory wouldn’t have been very useful under the old system, anyway. Since Glory vendors had rank-gated tiers, you’d have been able to buy a limited range of items, and a lot of those (armor/weapon tokens, PvP salvage kit, etc.) became obsolete when the PvP reward system was merged into the system we have now.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glory
You could have bought three Tomes of Knowledge and an eight slot bag, basically.