1990 P Kennedy Halves. Is This DDO? New For This..helps

looks like a doubled die to me as all devices are effected but idk

I'm sorry Bate, but it's all Machine Doubling, not a Doubled Die Obverse. A real Doubled Die doesn't reduce the size of the devices (only Machine Doubling does that).

Mrzllewellyn, there's no notching or split serifs (it's not there). It's all part of the product of Machine Doubling.

It's difficult to tell if these notches are really there, or if it's just from the lighting.

I can't say for sure either way.

I also saw the notches and wondered how this could not be a DDO. I also see though that there is MD on it.

Here is the pics without flare

I too see very slight notches on some serifs. If it is a DDO, it is most likely too minor to catalog. I often wonder though, could this be deterioration an metal movement.precursor to full die flow/deterioration VLDS?

When I got back into the hobby and learned about how far the hobby had come in identifying so many doubled dies - varietyvista showing the pics it does and looking at threads here - it was this kind of notching I started to look for to ID a DDO or DDR.

If the coin in hand looks like this and I owned it, then I know I would have been asking the same thing about this half.

As to it being too minor to list - I agree this is possible - but then a lot of the ones - especially the most recent DDOs and DDRs - also should not be listed b/c tey are a lot harder to see than this one.

I know when I started searching Kennedy halves a few years ago, I found some that were not listed, but since then have become so (I did not send them in). So with all due respect to Coop, b/c he has taught all of us so much here - including myself - I still think this is a DDO plus has some MD. if it was in my collection, I would have it labeled as such.