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.
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1845 Victoria Young Head Silver Crown
from £104.88
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1845 Victoria Young Head Silver Crown - Fine
from £104.88
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1891 Victoria Jubilee Head Silver Crown - Good Fine
from £104.88
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1816 George III Silver Sixpence
from £100.40
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1899 Queen Victoria Silver Halfcrown
from £91.60
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1897 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £90.70
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1888 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £90.70
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1901 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £86.70
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1899 Queen Victoria Silver Shilling
from £76.30
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1887 Queen Victoria Silver Milled Florin Dies 1+A
from £73.00
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1937 Gold Proof Sovereign George VI
from £4,354
1937 Gold Proof Sovereign George VI NGC PF63
from £4,237
1937 Gold Proof Sovereign George VI
from £3,854
from £3,154
1847 Queen Victoria "Gothic" Crown UNDECIMO
from £3,123.60
1847 Queen Victoria Silver Milled "Gothic" Crown
from £2,774
1813 Rare George III Military Guinea Gold Coin
from £2,627
1887 Jubilee Head £5 Gold coin Very Fine
from £2,465
1739 George II Two Guinea Gold Coin - Very Fine
from £2,362
1902 Edward VII Comemorative Proof Set
from £2,336
from £2,231
1911 - Gold Proof Sovereign NGC PF64
from £2,231
1710 Anne Guinea Gold Coin - Near Very Fine
from £2,231
from £2,182
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.
