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.
1892 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £132.48
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from £132.96
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1713 Queen Anne Silver Halfcrown "DVODECIMO"
from £133.08
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1889 Queen Victoria Silver Crown - Good Very Fine
from £133.80
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1887 Queen Victoria Silver Crown
from £133.92
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1888 Queen Victoria Silver Double Florin CGS 65
from £139.08
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1893 Victoria Silver Halfcrown
from £139.32
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1676 Charles II Silver Crown V OCTAVO
from £140.10
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1817 George III Silver Half Crown
from £145.60
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1711 Queen Anne Silver Shilling
from £150.48
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from £155.50
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1889 Queen Victoria Silver Double Florin
from £155.88
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1696 William III Silver Crown OCTAVO
from £156.10
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1845 Queen Victoria Silver Halfcrown CGS25
from £156.72
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1689 William & Mary Silver Halfcrown
from £157.08
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1723 George I Silver Shilling SCC
from £161.80
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1741 George II Silver Milled Shilling
from £162.60
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1900 Queen Victoria Silver Florin
from £162.84
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from £162.96
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1711 Anne Shilling - Very Fine
from £163.92
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1697 William III Silver Sixpence
from £164.90
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1887 Queen Victoria Silver Milled Crown
from £166.10
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.
