Dug 2-Cent Piece

After last week's horrible flea market (it's usually low-quality and high-priced, but the rain the night before and dark ships in the blue ocean above scared off many vendors), I walked toward what I was hoping was the S.O.S. office (for those of you who live in states without them, they are the Secretary of State offices and work like the DMV) as I wanted to renew my car's registration.
Well, it turned out it was a Social Security Administration.

Anyway, I walked downtown after that to see how things have changed. I stopped at Subway and ate out, a rare thing for me, asked how the lady behind the counter felt when customers read her name-tag and call her by her name (she finds it so weird, just like I), and walked about for a bit.

I took the route back toward an early Church here, where across the street is a tall, wide mound (several, actually, upon each other) of dirt I've searched through before.

The rains often work in my favor, revealing things previously hidden after every major one (such as this one).

Previously, in the last year (the mound exists as the city dumped its debris in the lot after tearing up historic Muskegon Avenue) I'd pulled out pavers, a marble, a bowl, and debris of interest from my town's past.

I made a little pile of debris to look at again (broken stoneware, something metal, etc.) and walked around the mound as the doves on it scurried and flew away (one just kept moving away from me).

As I came back near my little pile, I noticed a circle near the base of the hill upon which plants are beginning to grow. The shape and little bit of copper green caught my eye.

I picked it up and noticed it had details, looking like a shield. I thought it a token or a 2-cent piece.

I thanked God for it, looked around a bit more, and left to my car where I put it in a napkin in my cup-holder and drove out to another city to find an S.O.S. office (upon my nearing it, the rains beat down viciously).

Last photo of it is in my Subway cup which I downed and added boiling 2% (found at many stores) H2O2 to to hopefully get some corrosion off the coin.

Alas, it didn't do much. Still, the coin is local history. Further, how often do you find coins from the 1860s-1870s on the surface?