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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4179776, member: 101855&quot;]I acquired this 1562 Milled Six Pence a couple of years after I wrote the essay above. This piece is higher quality that then later hammered six pence shown above. Frenchman Eloye Mestrelle made the coins for the British using screw press powered by horses.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins were much nicer than the hammer strikes, but the process was slower and there were many equipment breakdowns. Mestrelle fell out of political favor and lost his position. Later he was hanged for counterfeiting.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1075201[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1075203[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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