time to time during each day, one coin from every thousand is taken out and these coins are assayed by the assayer daily.
After they have been assayed individually and a sufficiency has accumulated in the Treasury Department, they are melted down, cast into a bar and this bar is assayed. Generally sufficient coins have accumulated for this purpose in about ten or fourteen days.
When the coins are delivered from the Technical Department to the Bullion Department, one coin from every five thousand delivered is taken out by the chief officer of the Bullion Department in the presence of the assayer. These coins are then enclosed in a packet upon the outside of which is marked the date when they were struck and the number and weight of the coins which they represent, etc., and the packet is then sealed with the mint seal in the presence of the Commissioner, Superintendent of the Bullion Office and the assayer.
The packet is kept in the custody of the Commissioner until the annual trial of the Pyx.
At the end of the work of each financial year these pyx coins are assayed in the following manner. The Minister of Finance, or his representative selects from them a certain number (generally five to seven) for individual assay, and
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