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.
To view our range of Hammered Coins, click here.
1887 Queen Victoria Silver Florin
from £54.70
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1887 Queen Victoria Silver Halfcrown
from £64.60
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1898 LXII Queen Victoria Silver Crown
from £74.30
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1899 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £74.70
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1887 Queen Victoria Silver Double Florin
from £84.40
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from £90.00
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1821 George IV Crown - Fine {1-13-1821B}
from £93.60
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1821 George IV Crown - Fine {1-13-1821A}
from £93.60
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1849 Queen Victoria Silver Florin "godless"
from £94.70
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1746 George II Silver Sixpence "LIMA"
from £99.00
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1845 VIII Queen Victoria Silver Crown
from £99.30
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1847 Victoria Young Head Crown - Fine {1-13-1847A}
from £100.20
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1822 George IV Silver Crown "TERTIO"
from £109.30
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1887 Queen Victoria Silver Crown
from £109.30
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1873 Queen Victoria Silver Florin MDCCCLXIII
from £109.70
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from £110.00
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from £110.00
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1893 Victoria Silver Half Crown
from £110.00
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1887 Victoria Silver Half Crown
from £120.00
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1825 George IV Silver Shilling
from £125.00
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1900 Queen Victoria Silver Florin
from £134.70
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1711 Anne Shilling - Very Fine {1-17-V1711A}
from £136.10
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1713 Anne Shilling - Very Fine {1-17-V1713A}
from £136.10
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.
