1 Shilling - Charles II 1st milled bust

Charles II's milled coinage of the 1660s was a deliberate political act as much as a monetary one. The hammered silver it replaced had been clipped and counterfeited for decades, and the switch to machine-struck coin with milled edges — pushed through despite fierce resistance from the Moneyers, who stood to lose their hammering fees — effectively ended large-scale clipping almost overnight. The Royal Mint's adoption of Blondeau's edge-marking technology was central to this.

The first bust portrait was replaced by a second around 1669, making the earlier issues a distinct short-lived type spanning only the first years of the Restoration milled series.