Royal Mint other manufacturers. The Trial of the Pyx is the procedure in the United Kingdom for ensuring that newly-minted coins conform to required standards. The trials have been held since the twelfth century, normally once per calendar year, and continue to the present day. The form of the ceremony has been essentially the same since 1282. They are trials in the full judicial sense, presided over by a judge with an expert jury of assayers. Since 1871, the trials have taken place at the Hall of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, having previously taken place at the Palace of Westminster. Given
Coins of the Rhodesian pound Commonwealth and the United Nations, as the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) was not recognized as legitimate. In 1966, the 'rebel' Rhodesian Government decided to issue a set of gold coins to commemorate the first anniversary of the UDI. These consisted of three denominations: - ten shillings (bearing a sable antelope on the reverse) (click for reverse image); - one pound - 5000 minted (bearing the "lion and tusk" armorial crest of Rhodesia on the reverse) (click for obverse image) (click for reverse image); and - five pounds - 3000 minted (bearing the arms of Rhodesia on the reverse) (click