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Pyx [fr. puxiV Gk., a box], the box in which sample coins are kept. For the purpose of ascertaining that coins issued from the Mint have been coined in accordance with law, a 'trial of the pyx' is held once at least in every year in which coins have been issued; see the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), s. 12. The trial takes place before a jury of members of the Gold-smiths' Company....
Mint-mark
Mint-mark. The masters and workers of the Mint, in the indentures made with them, agree 'to make, of gold and silver, so that they may know which moneys were of their own making'; after every trial of the pyx, having proved their moneys to be lawful, they are entitled to their quietus under the Great Seal, and to be thereupon discharged from all suits or actions; they then change the privy mark, so that the moneys from which they are not yet discharged may be distinguished from those for which they are; they use the new mark until another trial of the pyx. See (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), s. 12. See PYX...
Monstrance
A transparent pyx in which the consecrated host is exposed to view...
Pix
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Pyx
The box case vase or tabernacle in which the host is reserved...
Pyxis
A box a pyx...
Pix.
Pix. See PYX....
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