Milled Coins
View a comprehensive range of Milled Coins at BullionByPost. We stock both gold milled coins and silver milled coins, ranging from Crowns and Florins to Guineas and Shillings.
Milled or 'machine-struck' coins were the successor to hammered coins and utilised modern machinery to produce the coins at a faster rate and with greater consistency than hand-made production.
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1709 Queen Anne Silver Shilling
from £45.20
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1915 George V Silver Halfcrown
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1894 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
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1917 George V Silver Halfcrown
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1893 Queen Victoria Silver Sixpence
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1689 William & Mary Silver Fourpence
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1711 Queen Anne Silver Sixpence - Good Fine
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1899 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
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1895 Queen Victoria Silver Halfcrown
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1901 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
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1906 Edward VII Silver Shilling
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1888 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
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1893 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
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1821 George IV Crown - Fine {1-13-1821B}
from £94.90
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1697B William III Silver Sixpence - Bristol Mint
from £95.10
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1817 George III Silver Shilling
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1712 Queen Anne Silver Shilling
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1849 Queen Victoria Silver Florin "godless"
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1881 Victoria Young Head Silver Half Crown
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1746 George II Silver Sixpence "LIMA"
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1816 George III Silver Sixpence
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1820 George IV Silver Half Crown
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BuyMilled coins first came to exist in 1550 in Europe following a surge in demand and a desire to protect against counterfeit production. Low-quality coins were being produced by Mints in an attempt to match demand, which made them easy to 'clip' to steal precious metal from the edges.
It was the French who struck first and moved to mechanical production - a decision designed to help France get an edge over the Holy Roman Empire. An unnamed French engineer - believed to be Marx Schwab - designed the new screw press and within a year France had a mechanised mint called the Moulin des Étuves.
In 1560, Queen Elizabeth I orchestrated a Great Recoinage in Britain and mechanised production came to England, though France, Britain and the rest of Europe didn't wholly adopt milled coins until many years later.
