Hard to image this, the brighter image is assisted by a small 1.5 V LED Doesn't appear to be in a typical clash overlay. (long thin thing is a scratch)
The glare in the photos is making it a little tough to determine what the anomaly is. I assume you are referring to the raised(?) anomaly at the foot of the A. It looks like it might be some die dents.
heres one I have potter wrote an article on it Leaf-Shaped Die Dent Found On Minn. 25c August 20, 2006 -- Whenever folks start looking more closely at an issue for a new discovery like a doubled die, they tend to find other thing too. The search for 2005-P&D Minnesota quarters with the "Extra Tree" doubled dies is no different. Lots of minor variety types and strike doubling damage is being found and submitted. Perhaps one of the more interesting that came in is a leaf-shaped die dent that appears in the field over the second evergreen tree from the right of the state outline on this issue. One can see evidence of metal displacement that surrounds the dent as a sort of trench all around its perimeter. When a die is dented metal is of course pushed down. In reaction, metal may be displaced upwards outside the perimeters of the dent. When the die is used to strike a coin the recessed dent is evidenced on the coin as raised metal while the raised area of metal displacement on the die shows as a shallow trench around the dent. We often see this effect around Mintmarks that were punched into the dies prior to the 1990's. So far, at least three persons searching for the Minnesota doubled dies have found examples of these die dents with the first one coming in from Colleen Prebish on August 7 and another one coming in from Dave Serbonich.
