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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 196896, member: 6229&quot;]<font size="2">England&#039;s milled coinage, that is, high quality coins of uniform size and shape produced on a press using finely milled blank planchets, were first made under Queen Elizabeth I and later, on a limited basis, by Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth (1649-1660). Under Charles II milled coin production greatly expanded and several coin denominations were revised. In fact, for several denominations Charles II produced the last hammered version of a particular coin, during 1660-1662, as well as the first milled version of the coin, during the later 1660&#039;s. Milled hand press coinage continued to be produced in England through the remainder of the period. It was not until the very end of the Eighteenth Century that the next major innovation occurred, namely the invention of the steam powered coining press at Matthew Bolton&#039;s Soho mint in Birmingham. </font></p><p><font size="2"></font><font face="Times New Roman">Here&#039;s an Elizabethan milled sixpence dated 1562: </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE2594-r.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE2594-r.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE2594-r.jpg</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"></font>Here&#039;s an 1567 silver 6 pence: <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE2599-r.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE2599-r.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE2599-r.jpg</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s a 1601 silver half crown: </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE2583.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE2583.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE2583.jpg</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Clinker</p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"> </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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