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	Trial of the Pyx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Trial of the Pyx is the procedure in the United Kingdom for ensuring that newly-minted coins conform to required standards.
		It is his or her responsibility to ensure that the trial is held in accordance with law, and to deliver the final verdict to Her Majesty's Treasury.
		Statutory basis for the Trial of the Pyx is given by the Coinage Act 1971, the latest in a long series of similarly-named Acts of Parliament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trial_of_the_Pyx (506 words)

	British Royal Mint - Trial Plates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A trial plate was an independently agreed standard to which the Master of the Mint was required to work; coins had to be made to the same standard as the trial plate and there were severe penalties if the coins were found wanting.
		At a trial of the Pyx a Mint portion of the plate, to which the Master will have been working, would be presented and, because the original plate had been cut in a distinctive fashion, its authenticity could be established by fitting it into the central piece kept by the Exchequer.
		The Trial of the Pyx dates back many centuries and in 1837 a series of trial plates was transferred to the Royal Mint from the Pyx Chapel in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.
	www.royalmint.com /RoyalMint/web/site/Corporate/Corp_museum/txt_trialplates.asp (683 words)

	Pyx - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In ecclesiastical usage it is the sacred vase or tabernacle in which the Host is reserved.
		In the English Mint the pyx is the chest in which are placed one coin from every 15 lb of newly coined gold and one from every 60 lb of newly coined silver to await the "trial of the pyx" (see Mint).
		This chest was formerly kept in the Chapel of the Pyx in Westminster Abbey.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pyx (604 words)

	The Goldsmiths' Company - The Trial of the Pyx
		The purpose of the annual trial is to check that UK coins produced at the Royal Mint are within the statutory limits for metallic composition, weight and size.
		The name Pyx refers to the chests in which the coins are transported, and derives from the Pyx chamber in Westminster Abbey where historically the chests were kept, along with other important items of state and church.
		The trial jury, comprising members of the Goldsmiths' Company, is summoned to the Hall by the senior judge in the Courts of Justice, known as the Queen's Remembrancer, and is a formal court of law.
	www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk /company/trial.htm (458 words)

	XML.com: Pyxie
		PYX is particularly useful for pipeline processing, in which the output of one application becomes the input to another application.
		Having said that, because we are using true XML parsers to generate the PYX, we know that the segregation of data into start-tags, end-tags, character data, attributes, and processing instructions is 100% reliable.
		The Pyxie library and the PYX notation are fully developed in my book XML Processing with Python, soon to be published by Prentice Hall.
	www.xml.com /pub/a/2000/03/15/feature/index.html (1474 words)

	Pyx (Nuttall Encyclopædia)
		Pyx, the name of a cup-shaped, gold-lined vessel, with lid, used in the Roman Catholic churches for containing the eucharistic elements after their consecration either for adoration in the churches or for conveying to sick-rooms.
		Pyx means “box.” Hence Trial of the Pyx is the annual test of the British coinage, for which purpose one coin in every 15 lbs.
		of silver coined is set aside in a pyx or box.
	www.fromoldbooks.org /Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/p/pyx.html (127 words)

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		This report concerns the process by which the standard of fineness of the gold and silver coinage of the realm is traditionally ascertained.
		A digression must here be made to introduce the test by which the purity is to be ascertained: this is effected by "trial plates," mixtures of pure metal with the legal quantity of alloy.
		The acid having deprived the gold of all the silver, the cornets are again subjected to the heat of the furnace and annealed to brightness.
	www.gold.org /value/reserve_asset/history/monetary_history/vol2/1866feb6.html (488 words)

	Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 1764
		This Order may be cited as the Trial of the Pyx Order 1998, and shall come into force on 22nd July 1998.
		(b) compare the nickel-brass sections of the coins with the standard trial plates of copper, nickel and zinc so as to ascertain whether the metal of the coins is on the whole within the permitted variation from the standard composition.
		The trial is held annually to ascertain that coins issued from the Mint have been coined in accordance with statutory specifications.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si1998/19981764.htm (3549 words)

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		The annual Trial of the Pyx was held at Goldsmiths' Hall on Tuesday February 7.
		The annual trial, which was first convened in the twelfth century, is held to ensure that UK coins produced at the Royal Mint meet the statuary requirements for metallic composition, weight and size.
		The name Pyx refers to the boxes in which the coins are transported and is derived from the Pyx chamber in Westminster Abbey where historically the boxes used to be kept.
	www.whoswhoingoldandsilver.com /whats/article.asp?id=114 (476 words)

	Trial of the Pyx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Since the early 13th century, coins struck by the Royal Mint in England have been evaluated for their metal content on a sample basis, in a ceremony called the Trial of the Pyx.
		The Master of the Mint, who was responsible for the quality of the coins, was allowed a margin of error, called the "remedy," which was set according to the manufacturing tolerances of the time.
		If the actual weight of the coins in the Pyx differed from its expected value by more than the remedy on either the high or low side, the Master of the Mint was exposed to serious penalties.
	www.stat.ucla.edu /cases/pix (393 words)

	The Trial of the Pyx (Amendment) Order 2005
		Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 8(2) and (3) of the Coinage Act 1971[1], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
		This Order may be cited as the Trial of the Pyx (Amendment) Order 2005 and comes into force on 10th February 2005.
		In practice, the trial of the Pyx normally lasts several weeks.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2005/20050254.htm (943 words)

	Westminster Abbey - Abbey Tour - The Pyx Chamber
		But it was best known as the home of the wooden boxes, called Pyxes, where a sample of the coinage of the realm was kept to await the “Trial of the Pyx”.
		This was a public demonstration to show that the coinage was pure and samples of coins were “tried” by being melted down and the silver content measured.
		The Trial itself was never held in the Chamber but in the Palace of Westminster.
	www.westminster-abbey.org /tour/pyx_chamber.htm (330 words)

	Ceremonies in the City of London
		The penalty, which was to last forever, was that a red Rose from the garden had to be presented annually to the Lord Mayor on the Feast of Saint John the Baptist.
		The Trial was moved to the Goldsmiths Hall in 1870 as the permanent venue.
		At the trial the jury sit round the table with a copper, and a wooden bowl in front of them.
	barryoneoff.co.uk /html/ceremonies.html (999 words)

	Gold Sovereign Mint Marks
		Mint marks can be traced back to the earliest of coins, they are often employed to allow an issuing authority with a way to distinguish the origin of the coins with a view to ensuring purity and weights.
		A random selection of coins were (and still are) placed into a box which is taken to a council of goldsmiths where purity and weights are checked against a known trial plate.
		In 1957 the Perth Mint was having troubles with their assays using the trial plate sent from London, when using the plate to assay the bullion produced, they kept coming up with purities in excess of 100%, which of course, is impossible.
	www.users.bigpond.com /cruzi/Coins/sovs/mintmark.htm (649 words)

	British Royal Mint - Trial of the Pyx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Trial of the Pyx is an examination by a jury entirely independent of the Royal Mint to ascertain that the gold, silver and cupro-nickel coins made by the Royal Mint are of the proper weight, diameter and composition by law.
		For the Purpose of the Trial a number of coins specified in the appropriate Trial of the Pyx Act is produced by the Officers of the Mint and placed in the Pyx, or box.
		The jurymen first check the number and denomination of the coins to see that the proper number has been produced, and then weigh the coins in bulk, as well as selected specimens, to ascertain that the average weight of the coins is within the remedy or tolerance allowed by law.
	www.royalmint.com /RoyalMint/web/site/Corporate/AboutUs/MakingCoins/TrialofPyx.asp (325 words)

	Facetation / george goodall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Trial of the Pyx has been conducted at least since 1279.
		A grab sample of coins are collected during the minting process and locked in the Pyx.
		Stigler, Stephen M. Eight centuries of sampling inspection: The trial of the Pyx.
	www.deregulo.com /facetation/2005/07/boyle-and-pyx-we-find-origins-of.html (132 words)

	pyx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Related phrases: pyx chest pyx/pyxis trial of the pyx
		A wooden box which contains, in England, coins produced by the mint, to be tested for weight and purity by the Goldsmiths Company of London in the annual "Trial of the Pyx".
		A pyx is a small container used by Catholic churches to carry the consecrated Eucharist to the sick or invalid.
	dict.vocamania.com /pyx.aspx (226 words)

	Television Point \| Dictionary \| Meaning of pyx
		A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.
		Ch.), a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx.
		To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.
	www.televisionpoint.com /dictionary/default.asp?define=pyx (134 words)

	TIME.com: Trial of the Coins -- Feb. 19, 1945 -- Page 1
		FISCAL Trial of theCoins This week, as on every second Wednesday in February for the last 152 years, the Trial of the Coins was held at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
		The coins—261,064 of them—had piled up all last year in the pyx box*—one coin from each batch (or part thereof) of 2,000 silver coins delivered from the coining room to the superintendent of all U.S. mints during the year.
		In 1801 the trial had to be postponed after the seat of government was moved from Philadelphia to Washington.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,778332,00.html (502 words)

	Pyx Financial Group Inc.
		Since the early 13th century, coins were selected during the year and placed in a box which would be opened annually by the Goldsmiths’ Company of the City of London and tested to ensure they met the proscribed tolerances.
		The box is called ‘the Pyx’ and the testing is called the ‘Trial of the Pyx’.
		The Trial is still held in Cardiff Wales, the current site of the Royal Mint.
	www.pyxfinancial.com /about_pyx/whats_in_a_name.htm (126 words)

	Definition of Pyx from dictionary.net
		Pyx cloth (R. Ch.), a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx.
		Trial of the pyx, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins.
		Define pyx and 150,000 other words at dictionary.net
	www.dictionary.net /pyx (122 words)

	pyx Learning about the twisted trial unittesting framework
		I used to run the woven tests by themselves a lot using the -file switch of admin/runtests.
		Since the trial unittest framework has been checked in, this no longer works.
		It appears the way to run a single test is to use the -m switch to specify the module that contains the tests:
	ulaluma.com /pyx/archives/2003/01/learning_about.html (61 words)

	The University of Chicago Magazine: December 1999, Research
		He eventually found himself in the vault of the Royal Mint in London, examining materials from an ancient ceremony called the Trial of the Pyx, in which sample coins placed in the pyx at the end of several production cycles are taken out, counted, weighed, and assayed.
		"Here I was being shown their most sacred treasures from a ceremony that has been going on for 800 years," he recalls, noting that the trial provides a rare example of a long-running quality-control program in which modern statistical concepts such as sampling have been used since the Middle Ages.
		Stigler says he is now "trying to come to grips with the tremendous and exciting growth in statistics through the 20th century." He's interested in the relationship between statistical methods and the questions they are designed to answer in economics, genetics, and the social and physical sciences.
	magazine.uchicago.edu /9912/research/stigler.html (1149 words)

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	What's up with Enoch Root? Part III: The System of the World
		Reread the passage of the assay (trial of the pyx) for further reinforcement of this idea.
		More interestingly, my take on the Trial of the Pyx is that the gold actually performs both of the miracles attributed to the philosophic mercury:
		We could at a stretch assume Isaac was minting 24 carat guineas instead of the 22 carat alloy he was allowed to use, but we know the Pyx was adulterated with fake coins by Jack.
	www.cafeaulait.org /systemoftheworld.html (2247 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Pyx
		This text examines the Chapter House and Pyx Chamber, in the Great Cloister of Westminster Abbey, which formed part of the medieval Benedictine monastery.
		Westminster Abbey: The Chapter House; The Pyx Chamber and Treasury; The Undercroft
		On a Carved Ivory Pyx in the British Museum.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Pyx (1219 words)

	Pyx's Blog
		Blogs > pyx > The Trial Of Pyx > Feb 19, 2006
		The jury will now be sequestered and deliberate on the proof presented to them by the defence and prosecution.
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	alt.com /blog/Pyx/2006-02-19 (106 words)

	House of Commons - Treasury - Minutes of Evidence
		The earliest recorded Trial of the Pyx, where samples of the national coinage continue to be presented annually for examination by a jury, took place in the thirteenth century.
		The Act does not specify that the Mint should be the supplier of the United Kingdom coinage, or that it should be a government department, but these assumptions underlie several of its provisions.
		The Act details the arrangements for the annual Trial of the Pyx and the specifications for gold coins and silver maundy coins, whilst providing that specifications for other UK coins be set by Royal Proclamation.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmtreasy/239/1021302.htm (3857 words)

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