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.
1819 George III Silver Crown - About Uncirculated
from £495.00
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1713 Queen Anne Silver Milled Crown Post union
from £486.40
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from £478.80
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1893 LVI Queen Victoria Silver Milled Crown
from £474.48
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1886 Queen Victoria Silver Halfcrown
from £450.60
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1696 William III Silver Crown "OCTAVO" - Very Fine
from £414.60
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1820 George IV Silver Half Crown
from £405.70
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from £401.76
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from £401.76
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1638-9 Charles I Silver Sixpence mm anchor
from £396.12
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1898 Queen Victoria Silver Crown LXI
from £390.48
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1800 George III Silver Maundy Set
from £384.80
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1902 Edward VII Silver Crown - About Uncirculated
from £371.88
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1746 George II Silver Half Crown 'Lima'
from £367.00
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1693 William and Mary silver Shilling
from £360.12
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1665 Charles II Pattern Silver Shilling Rare.
from £358.92
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from £352.92
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1804 George III Bank of England Dollar
from £337.90
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.
