What an outstanding find and great pics Mike! Looking at the detail, A guy has got to think that coin saw very little pocket time or circulation...A guy has to imagine it was lost very shortly after its issue...which means you found a whole weeks pay lost!
Wonder what the situation was that precipitated its loss? Oh man!..if only that coin could talk! Some poor guy worked an entire month in the blueberry patch or a week at the steel mill! He either had a hole in his pocket, or got into a drunken street brawl, or got attacked by Indians, or his kid stole it......
Pretty much parallels how a guy loses a weeks/months pay nowadays...same sort of thing!...