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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 8633896, member: 104064"]Good eye, I scrolled right past it. There is also a "recoinage" reference later, February 1914. <a href="https://ia800106.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/35/items/Rg104Entry273/Rg104Entry273_jp2.zip&file=Rg104Entry273_jp2/Rg104Entry273_0021.jp2&id=Rg104Entry273&scale=1&rotate=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ia800106.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/35/items/Rg104Entry273/Rg104Entry273_jp2.zip&file=Rg104Entry273_jp2/Rg104Entry273_0021.jp2&id=Rg104Entry273&scale=1&rotate=0" rel="nofollow">https://ia800106.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/35/items/Rg104Entry273/Rg104Entry273_jp2.zip&file=Rg104Entry273_jp2/Rg104Entry273_0021.jp2&id=Rg104Entry273&scale=1&rotate=0</a>Starting from the beginning, there is another for January 1912 at the bottom, which states "reports recoinage of" and then lists amounts for 5, 3, and 1 cent coins. Since 3 cent "nickels" were not produced after 1889, the context for "recoinage" here seems conclusively to indicate that it means "melted and recoined", at least for that entry. Of course we can't conclude anything definite about the $40k worth as the first Buffalo nickel mintage being "recoinage" - they may have screwed up the first batch and started over, who knows.[/QUOTE]