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.
from £108.72
1816 George the Third Silver Sixpence
from £108.36
1879 Queen Victoria Silver Sixpence
from £105.96
1838 Queen Victoria Silver Groat Low 3 Variety CGS75
from £105.84
1887 Queen Victoria Silver Double Florin
from £104.76
1711 Queen Anne Silver Milled Shilling - Good Fine
from £101.80
1889 Queen Victoria Silver Double Florin – GEF
from £100.90
1838 Victoria Silver Shilling A1
from £99.50
1891 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £98.60
from £98.60
1886 YH Queen Victoria Silver Sixpence
from £98.30
1887 YH Queen Victoria Silver Sixpence
from £98.30
1787 George III Silver Sixpence
from £98.30
1821 George IV Silver Crown - Fine
from £97.20
1819 George III Silver Crown - Fine
from £97.20
1758 George II Silver Shilling
from £96.72
1881 Victoria Young Head Silver Half Crown
from £96.40
from £96.10
1892 Queen Victoria Silver Milled Shilling
from £95.50
1821 George IV Silver Crown - Good Fine
from £94.10
1898 LXII Queen Victoria Silver Crown
from £93.48
from £92.64
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.
