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• n  a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
• n  any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept

• The coins261,064 of themhad piled up all last year in the pyx boxone coin from each batch (or part thereof) of 2,000 silver coins delivered from the coining room to the .
• With the pop eyes of ignorance most of the testers looked on the great pyx, an ancient chest three feet square, used according to records for 98 years, and no one knows how .
• So were gold and silver vessels worth $3,000thuribles (censers), other ciboria, a gold--onyx crucifix, a pyx (watch-shaped case for carrying the Sacrament to the sick).

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News & Articles

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• NASA's Hubble Maps 3-D Structure Of Ejected Material Around Erupting Star
  Rare Opportunity To Capture Images From Double-Star System T Pyx A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova. Astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to observe the light emitted by the close double-star system T Pyxidis, or T Pyx, a recurring nova, during its latest outburst in April 2011.
  June 9, 2013 - The Aero-News Network