1971 JFK half dollar. Die clash?

[waynesonofpeter]

The coin weighs 173 grains (11.23 grams) and appears to have a clash above the eye to the immediate west. On the reverse the right foot of the Eagle, on the branch, the first set of leaves show doubling.

[SensibleSal66]

Hard to tell what's going on from these photo's . Here's the overlay to help you out .

[DSCoins]

I agree with hard to tell with the photos you posted. Again to high of magnification. I know you have told this a number of times. We are only trying to teach you about the type of photos you need to take and post. You really don't need 10 photos of this coin for us to look at and give you a opinion one. I am going to post something on posting photos. This is only to teach you what you need to post and what to post (remember less is more).

Please be advised that the general rule for posting coins is one coin per-topic. You do not need to post a coin to be compared to, as those who are giving their opinion know what the coin should or should not look like.
When posting photos of a coin you would like someone to look at, you should post a photo of both the full Obverse and Reverse. Try to take these photos as clear and close as possible. It would be extremely helpful if you would crop these photos. Next take some photos of the area in question again as close and clear as possible. It would also help if you could find some way to point to the area in question or give a detailed explanation of what you want to be looked at. If you need a photo editing program, there are three free ones that come to mind. They are PhotoScape, Inkscape and Gimp. Of the three PhotoScape is the easiest to use. Daniel explains quite well in the following topics, posting photos plus Daniels Video on posting coins

[waynesonofpeter]

Thank you for all that, almost. I did see a statement about subject to short so I've started to elaborate with the suggestions from
Daniel about weight and such. And yes I am having difficulty with the pictures and will check the sites you mentioned. But I only posted the one coin, the last two, side by side, was someone showing me a really cool looking coin. What was that P word that describes (me) seeing what I want to see while looking at a coin, my imagination playing tricks on me? BTW, another thank you to you and Daniel, I'm going through coins quicker now with my new insight on what is and isn't. Ok, one more question, I have an inquire about coin metal designs, I have few examples, at this time would it be appropriate to show a few coins to get the point across on the inquiry?

[Earle42]

Kennedy specialist here. Nice clash!

What you are seeing are the spaces between the leaves on the REV showing up to make what I call a "Rhino Nose" JFK.

While this clash can happen on any date, after a couple years of weekly roll searching and keeping an eye out for this, I found 1971-D through 1977-D, as well as 1983 P the ones on which the clash is more often found.

The 1971-D and 1983-P seem the most prevalent to find it one with 1972-D being third. Some of the 83s are amazingly prevalent that I have seen sell online.

[Earle42]

What was that P word that describes (me) seeing what I want to see while looking at a coin

Pareidolia - all humans have this as a part of their nature. BTW, its neither a positive or negative word.

[Daniel]

Nice die clash

[waynesonofpeter]

Re ask question from previous statement. "Ok, one more question, I have an inquire about coin metal designs, I have few examples, at this time would it be appropriate to show a few coins", on the one page," to get the point across on the inquiry?"

[Earle42]

The concept is one coin per post so the answers we give are easily linked to which coin we are making our remarks about. Daniel will need to be the one to decide the above scenario you ask about.

[Daniel]

Only one coin or question per topic it makes it much less confusing