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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 479421, member: 12789&quot;]Several denominations, but the guild of mint workers was completely against the idea of machine made coinage - think of them as the GM autoworkers of the 16th century.&nbsp; They got their way for over 100 years.&nbsp; See, milled coins were not as labour intensive as hand struck coins.&nbsp; It took the English Civil War of 1642-1648, the Commonwealth, and the resultant dearth of coinage to finally convince the mint that milled coins were the better option.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hammered coins continued to circulate in England until 1696 when they were all called in and recoined into milled coins.&nbsp; They continued circulating in Scotland until 1708-9 when they were called in and re-issued in sterling denominated coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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