PRESS RELEASE: Sixpences made from recycled silver pass the Trial of the Pyx
A limited run of collectible sixpences made from X-Ray silver are among the coins that have passed the Trial of the Pyx, one of the UK’s oldest judicial processes. The 700-year-old process aims to protect consumers by upholding the quality of the nation’s coinage through rigorous testing – as important today as it was at the first recorded public trial in 1248. The Verdict is the last stage of the Trial, which was opened in February and is presided over by the King’s Remembrancer, Senior Master (Jeremy David) Cook of the Kings’ Bench Division of the High