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.
1889 Queen Victoria Silver Halfcrown
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from £241.68
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from £246.20
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from £248.04
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1786 Charles III Spain Gold 1/2 Escudo
from £250.90
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1900 LXIV Queen Victoria Silver Crown
from £254.04
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1673 Charles II Crown - Nice Fine
from £254.88
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George V 1939 Silver Maundy Set - Uncirculated Boxed
from £259.10
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from £259.44
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1892 Queen Victoria Silver Halfcrown
from £265.08
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1814 George III Silver Three Shilling Bank Token
from £271.08
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1872 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £273.00
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1883 Victoria Silver Half Crown
from £281.20
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1687 James II Silver Crown - Fine
from £284.28
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1676 Charles II Silver Crown "V.OCTAVO"
from £296.16
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1927 George V Silver Wreath Crown
from £296.52
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1672 Charles II Silver Milled Halfcrown
from £305.30
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1834 William IV Silver Halfcrown
from £313.32
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1911 George V Silver Half Crown Proof
from £316.20
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1689 William and Mary Silver Halfcrown
from £318.96
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1819 LIX George III Silver Milled Crown
from £319.32
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1893 Queen Victoria Silver Crown LVI
from £319.92
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.
