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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 1631749, member: 5682&quot;]That is a great coin which is filled with so much history. :thumb: That said, we should remember that the milled coinage of Elizabeth I was just a brief aberration. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://encyclopedia-of-money.blogspot.com/2010/04/milled-edge-coinage.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://encyclopedia-of-money.blogspot.com/2010/04/milled-edge-coinage.html" rel="nofollow">http://encyclopedia-of-money.blogspot.com/2010/04/milled-edge-coinage.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Despite these early efforts at milled coinage, hammered coinage continued to be the norm (with a few subsequent sporadic and unsuccessful efforts at milled coinage). A century later Charles II finally universalized milled coinage in 1662/63.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, modern coinage didn’t begin until 1696 and the Re-coinage Act of Parliament (this is taken from a previous post of mine):</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For me, modern coinage nearly coincides with the earliest stirrings of The Enlightenment and one of its greatest manifestations--England&#039;s Glorious Revolution (1688).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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