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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 1637383, member: 40017&quot;]An interesting question! To be honest I do not know if Britain&#039;s traditional distrust of the French played a part - maybe someone else can contribute? It is likely that other factors also played a part - conservatism, vested interests, and probably bribery and corruption.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, Milled coins were produced under Oliver Cromwell bearing his portrait and using English made dies, but French owned machines in the Netherlands. When Charles II was restored as King, we reverted to hammered coinage for a while, but adopted Milled coinage shortly thereafter. Thomas Simon, who had designed Cromwell&#039;s coins, petitioned the crown to have his coins adopted as standard using the famous &quot;Petition Crown&quot;, which is now one of the most valuable Silver British coins in existence. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition_Crown" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition_Crown" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition_Crown</a> for more on this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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