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 £2,296
1902 Edward VII Comemorative Proof Set
from £2,260
1739 George II Two Guinea Gold Coin - Very Fine
from £2,257
1887 Jubilee Head £5 Gold coin Very Fine
from £2,188
1911 - Gold Proof Sovereign NGC PF64
from £2,180
from £2,180
1710 Anne Guinea Gold Coin - Near Very Fine
from £2,178
from £2,081
from £2,060
from £1,949
1662 Charles II Silver Milled Crown - Medal alignment
from £1,869.60
1721 George I Guinea Gold Coin
from £1,756
1716 George I Guinea Gold Coin
from £1,756
1689 William and Mary Gold Guinea - Fine
from £1,737
1764 George III Guinea Gold Coin
from £1,720
1692 William & Mary Gold Guinea
from £1,701
1911 George V Proof Gold Sovereign
from £1,597
1792 Charles IV Spanish 8 Escudos
from £1,507
1776 George III Milled Gold Guinea
from £1,453
from £1,453
from £1,450
from £1,416
from £1,413
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.
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