Pyx
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A receptacle in a mint where sample coins are placed for testing.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
TRIAL OF THE. Under the British Coinage Acts this occurs annually at Goldsmiths’ Hall. The coins of the realm are assayed and weighed by a jury of goldsmiths over which the King’s Remembrancer is usually appointed by the treasury to preside. Formerly the specimen coins put into the Pyx or box were produced at Westminster, from the treasure-house of the Abbey, where the Pyx was kept; the duty of presiding at the trial belonged to the office of the Remem- Q Q. C. An abbreviation of Queen’s Counsel. See Babristeb.