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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 2820852, member: 40017&quot;]Just s slight correction here. Milled coins were issued prior to Charles II in England. Some were issued under Cromwell just prior to Charles II&#039;s restoration, though these are scarce. </p><p><br /></p><p>More interestingly they were issued for a while under Elizabeth I almost a hundred years earlier and occasionally during the reigns of James I and Charles I. </p><p><br /></p><p>Understandably there was considerable opposition to the new mechanisation from the craftsmen moneyers and so these earlier milled runs came to a premature end. I am told one Frenchman, a specialist in milled coinage, found himself in the Tower of London on trumped up charges as a way of bringing his experiment to an end!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a picture of my Eliz I milled sixpence somewhere, but I can&#039; lay my hands on it at the moment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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