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I can't remember digging this one, so it is old. maybe from the early 1990's. I found it in an old bag of my coins. Can anyone id it? I know there isn't much to go on.
 
It has writing but I can't tell what it says. I found what I thought was a copper slug once but it looked different somehow, so I took some 400 grit sandpaper to it. Turned out to an 1858 flying eagle penny.
 
It looks like a trade token from Indiana. I can't tell any more than that. See if you can get some pictures using a flashlight shing from a very low angle so the light creates shadows in the low relief areas of the token. It looks like it has plenty of detail to ID it if we had more pics. Both pics posted are helpful but more is better. The side of the token in the first picture(left) is likely the best one to focus on as I can see more info on it.
 
This looks like a match, nice find.
I'll work up a GIF/overlay to confirm but I am pretty certain this is it. I'll post it in the next comment since I won't get it completed in time to edit this comment......
 
Aarong81 you are amazing. Thanks for taking the time to figure this out.

Now the bad news.....as soon as I saw that picture it came back to me. My brain is shot, but now I remember the field where I dug that, and I remember rubbing on paper and figuring out what it was...but for the life of me, I could not remember anything about it tonight. I am going to print this out and put it with the token because in another 10-20 years I will forget again....lol.

Anyway thanks again!!!!!!!
 
The letters
CO. INDIANA
HIGH
BUGG
Are visible and without doubt on the obverse.
The letters
BUGG
SURR
INDIANAPOLIS
Are visible with less clarity on the reverse. But ALSO visible is the cross surrounding the name PARRY on the reverse.

Also visible is the TOP of the wheel on the REAR of the buggy and the TOP of the rain/sun cover for the buggy. Looking closely, I can even see both of the FRONT wheels of the buggy.

I had to stretch and rotate your images due to the angle of the photos being taken not being the same so some letters, ect, do not line up perfectly.
You have to CLICK the image below to ANIMATE it.
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2203/id2.gif
 
It makes it easy to compare the same spot on both tokens with moving your eyes.
 
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