Another alternative is DigitalNote (XDN), it seems to have some pretty decent value lately and its difficulty is not too high yet. I've been doing merged mining on Minergate with Monero and getting DigitalNote on the side. I know a lot of people here have mixed feelings about Minergate so feel free to try another pool if there are any that offer merged mining since you can mine a crypto that's low difficulty like you wanted, but also mine a bit of monero at the same time.
This what I used to do, and Minergate never did me dirty. Not sure if the OP has mined before, but Minergate would be a simple way to play with AEON and BCN, among others
Yeah same, I've been using Minergate for a few months now and never had any issues. I haven't tried to cash out yet though but it seems like most people haven't had issues with that either. They also have merged mining for some other coins, especially MCN+a bunch of others, but I'm pretty sure MCN is worthless anyways. Even Minergate's own conversion rates give MCN 0 value.