✅ SOLVED Unusual Medallion

[capt-zero]

I found this at a garage sale yesterday, and it has me intrigued. It is probably not very valuable, but has just stumped any efforts on my part to identify it. At first I thought it was made of stainless steel, but it is not magnetic so I assume it is chromed brass. The greenish highlights seen in the photos are an artifact of my camera and doesn't show up in real life. There is a lot of lettering on it but I can't make out any single word only individual letters. A few ideas I already investigated with no luck are; a drawing of Leonardo Da Vinci, A porugese navigational medallion, and a balistic drawing. On one side in the first picture appear the words "Alphad" and then "Cruiga" or "Cruga" directly beneath. There is also lettering all around the borders of both sides. Any ideas?






p.s. It is slightly smaller than a fifty cent piece.

 

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[AU Seeker]

Your photos aren't clear enough for us to get a good view of what is on the medallion, but from your post which I believe should read "Alphard" not Alphad, it may have something to do with a computer language written in 1974.

Alphard programming language

" history: Alphard (named for the brightest star in Hydra) was designed by William Wulf, Mary Shaw, and Ralph London of Carnegie-Mellon University in 1974. A Pascal-like language intended for data abstraction and verification. Make use of the “form”, which combined a specification and an implementation, to give the programmer control over the impolementation of abstract data types.
“Alphard is a computer language designed to support the abstraction and verification techniques required by modern programming methodology. Alphard’s constructs allow a programmer to isolate an abstraction, specifying its behavior publicly while localizing knowledge about its implementation. It originated from studies at both Carnegie-Mellon University and the Information Sciences Institute.” —Language Finger, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana."

 

[Bramblefind]

I think others like it have been posted here before - here are a couple links, plus one to another forum..

Ned Help, Mysticism, reading, forums, Numerology, Sun Signs, Divination

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/metal-detecting/27502-help-unknown-necklace.html

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/metal-detecting/1219-unknown-medallion.html

plus an ebay listing as referenced in the last thread-

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RICHES-PROS...736?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eac19f080

 

[capt-zero]

Bramblefind, Thanks so much for the links and referals. I believe that identified it. The front is the "Talisman for Riches" and the reverse is the "Seal of Great Prosperity". A lot of good history involved in both symbols (they are both quite ancient-preMacedonian Greek). Many hours of good reading. Thanks again!