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 £1,023
1820 Gold Sovereign - George III - Fine
from £1,015
1821 Gold Sovereign - George IV Laureate Head
from £1,014
1823 George IV 2 pound Sovereign Trace of Mount
from £1,013
1832 William IV Gold Sovereign
from £1,004
1759 George II Gold Guinea - PCGS VF25
from £1,002
1821 Gold Sovereign - George IV Laureate Head
from £989.70
1820 George IIII Sovereign Closed 2
from £984.80
from £983.80
from £977.10
1798 George III Gold Guinea Extremely Fine
from £977.10
1715 George I Gold Guinea - Fine
from £972.60
1771 George III Guinea Gold Coin
from £970.60
1688 James II Guinea Gold Coin
from £969.10
from £967.10
1793 George III Milled Gold Guinea NGC AU55
from £964.00
1776 George III Guinea - Good Fine
from £959.30
from £952.20
1791 George III Guinea Gold Coin
from £952.10
1675 Charles II Half Guinea - Fine
from £943.60
1773 George III Guinea Gold Coin - Fine
from £936.30
1694 William and Mary Gold Guinea
from £935.60
from £917.10
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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