Show Ancient English Custom The term Trial of the tir l Y Is ap applied plied piled in n Great Grent Britain to the tir officIal Inquiry annually made m d to determine the weight and fineness of the standard coins Issued from the mint taint during the preceding year icar ear It Is so called from the p that Is the box or chest In which are ore preserved the specimen gold and sliver silver coins of or the realm The fhe first trIal is said to h have haTe ve been order ordered d by Henry II I 1189 1154 1 The earlier tests occurred at Irre Irregular Intervals but since the passage of the coinage act oct In 1870 the examination has haa been an- an annually annually an annually made at Goldsmiths hall lil lu I by a jury of goldsmiths presided over b by the kings king's Kansas City Stat |