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.
1574 Elizabeth I Sixpence mm Eglantine
from £177.84
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1883 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £180.48
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1897 Queen Victoria Silver Halfcrown
from £181.32
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1898 Queen Victoria Silver Crown LXII
from £181.92
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1887 Queen Victoria Silver Crown - Extremely Fine
from £181.92
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1893 Queen Victoria Silver Halfcrown
from £187.08
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1693 William & Mary Silver Halfcrown
from £187.08
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1893 LVI Queen Victoria Silver Crown
from £192.12
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1723 George I Silver Shilling SCC - Good Very Fine
from £194.80
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1696 William III Silver Sixpence
from £198.24
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1887 Queen Victoria Silver Milled Crown CGS65
from £199.32
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1826 George IV Silver Shilling
from £210.48
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from £211.32
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1683 Charles II Halfcrown - Fine
from £211.68
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1562 Elizabeth I Silver Threepence mm Star
from £222.00
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from £225.50
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1681 Charles II Silver Crown "T.TERTIO"
from £230.04
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1878 Queen victoria Shilling die no 59
from £234.48
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1881 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
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from £239.28
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.
