Mills or Milling

In [numismatics], the term milled coinage (also known as machine-struck coinage) is used to describe coins which are produced by some form of machine, rather than by manually hammering coin blanks between two dies ([hammered coinage]) or casting coins from dies.
History

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.
The earliest machine known for producing coins is the screw press, invented by [Leonardo da Vinci] in the 15th century, powered by a [water mill]. With the arrival of machine-driven and struck coins also came new technology and techniques for stamping the coin's edge with a reeded or milled edge or impressed with designs. The presence of reeding shows that the coin's edge has not been shaved or clipped.
The new edging processes for coins impeded them from being [clipped] into smaller pieces as did happen when coins were hammer-struck. Hence, milled edges were originally designed and intended to show that none of the metal had been shaved off the coin. Earlier, coins were shaved or clipped to almost half of their minted weight by unscrupulous persons and it is from this phenomenon that we derive the phrase "clip artist" to mean a thief. This form of debasement in Tudor England led to the formulation of [Gresham's Law], so named after Sir [Thomas Gresham].