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.
1686 James II Guinea Gold Coin
from £1,411
1692 William and Mary Silver Crown - Fine
from £1,408
1937 Proof Half Sovereign PCGS PF63
from £1,401
from £1,369
1927 George V Silver Proof Six Coin Set Slabbed
from £1,357
1679 Charles II Two Guinea Gold Coin - Fine
from £1,332
1690 William and Mary Gold Guinea - Fine
from £1,323
from £1,275
from £1,275
from £1,268
1793 George III Guinea Gold Coin
from £1,168
1689 Gold Guinea William and Mary
from £1,163
1937 George VI Proof Half Sovereign NGC PF62
from £1,125
from £1,113
1763 George III Guinea Gold Coin
from £1,104
from £1,102
1773 George III Guinea Gold Coin
from £1,090
from £1,088
1695 William III Guinea Gold Coin
from £1,066
1695 William III Half Guinea Gold Coin
from £1,052
from £1,051
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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