From c. 1124 until 1709 the coinage of Scotland was unique, and minted locally. A wide variety of coins, such as the plack, bodle, bawbee, dollar and ryal were produced over that time. For trading purposes coins of Northumbria and various other places had been used before that time; and since 1709 those of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and then of the UK.
An example of a dupondius coin of Vespasian (AD 69–79) typical of the Roman coins deposited at the Cardean Fort Angus in the late first century.
Image: Scotland penny 802002
Image: Gold Lion of Robert III of Scotland
Image: Charles I 1637 621487
In numismatics, the term milled coinage is used to describe coins which are produced by some form of machine, rather than by manually hammering coin blanks between two dies or casting coins from dies.
Milled edges of Indian five rupees coins
A mill for the production of 'milled' coins with both coin dies illustrated.
A mill for inscribing or milling the edges of coin flans or planchets.
French-made coining press from 1831 (National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid)