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Definition of Pyx chest
1. Noun. A chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyx Chest
Literary usage of Pyx chest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"The pyx chest, having been brought to the Hall in the custody of officers of the
mint, is opened in the presence of the jury, who proceed to examine the ..."
2. Roberts-Austen: A Record of His Work. Being a Selection of the Addresses and by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Sydney W. Smith (1914)
"The pyx chest alone remains, but the Pyx Chapel continues, like the enchanted
cave of Toledo or Covadonga, the original hiding-place of England's gold—the ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"... but now the pyx chest, containing the coins tried euch year by the Goldsmiths'
Company, is kepi and the trial plates are kept by the Warden of the ..."
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