Thanks for the post Victor. I've looked through the link you provided and through some of the spreadsheets available there. I can't seem to find anything similar to my coin listed in there, but I'll keep looking through it.
Its been a very interesting journey for this coin, and so I'd like to share how I found it. I work for a municipality in the public works dept. Some of my tasks include collecting the coins from street parking meters. Usually we have anywhere from 150 -250 lbs in coins when we do a collection of all the meters. Now, its very common of course to find foreign coins in with US coins, so what we do is push and pull a ~10 lb. brick magnet through the coin pile (usually divided up into several piles at this stage to make it easier). The magnet pulls out about 90% of the foreign coins and tokens. This gets us ready to run the entire pile into the machine sorter and bagger. The machine also diverts any foreign coins, or damaged coins or other objects into a divert bin.
So the entire pile of coins (after the hand magnet) was placed into the top of the machine and I was running it on that day. I happened to look at the top of the pile and there was this coin, face up, looking right at me. I noticed it right away and picked it off the pile. It would have been diverted by the machine if I were to not have noticed it anyway, but still it was just right there... right on top of this huge pile of 200lbs of coins. Now its in my hands, and since the municipality only cares about US coins for revenue purposes, this coin is now mine. We get a lot of worldwide tourism, so it probably came from someone overseas... or not...who knows. The other thing to mention is that although we get pennies, they actually do not count for any time on a parking meter, and this coin looks close enough to a penny, that someone probably didn't realize what it is.