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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1887 Queen Victoria Silver Milled Florin Dies 1+A
from £72.10
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1758 George II Milled Silver Sixpence
from £76.80
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from £78.24
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1811 George III Silver Eighteenpence Bank Token
from £79.10
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1893 Queen Victoria Silver Sixpence
from £79.44
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from £80.90
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1888 Queen Victoria Silver Milled Florin
from £84.10
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1816 George III Silver Eighteenpence Bank Token
from £87.10
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from £87.84
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1888 Queen Victoria Silver Milled Halfcrown CGS55
from £90.12
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1900 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £90.24
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1893 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling rare dies 1+C
from £90.24
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1899 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £90.36
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from £93.90
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1892 Queen Victoria Silver Milled Shilling
from £95.10
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1881 Victoria Young Head Silver Half Crown
from £95.30
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1895 Queen Victoria Silver Halfcrown
from £96.72
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Milled 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.
