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Ansell was born at Carshalton on 4 March 1826.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...face. This could hardly have been an accidental occurrence; it would seem that the workman of the press must have struck the coin properly, and then taken some pains to fit it into a larger collar and give it a second blow. If the collars were all of precisely the same size such an act would be impossible; but there are sufficient variations in the size of the collars to admit of this explanation. Some accidental productions have been called by ignorant writers incused coins, and conjectural histories of them have been published; when, in fact, their history is simply this: it so chanced that the coin last struck remained upon the upper die, and gave its lower-side impression to the upper side of the next blank which was coined. This is no uncommon occurrence, and the effect of it would be that such a coin would have the same device on each side; but of course one would present the design in relief and the other in intaglio. Such being some of the imperfections of Mr. Boulton's coining press, it may perhaps be assumed that they can be readily overcome; but I am not aware of the existence of any press which is free from them. The French press has, however, many advantages, and the Mint authorities have recently had a new one made, from which extraordinary results were anticipated, hut it now appeal's that this is simply another improvement of the usual type, and that it has cost about £1,500. As the coined money issues from the press it is collected in trays and examined; all imperfect coins, curiously termed " brockages," are picked out; and the good coins weighed into drafts of 701 sovereigns, equal in weight to about 180 ounces: these are at present sent to the weighing room, where they are examined for imperfect coins by passing...
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assistant chemist author scientific inventor
Ansell was born at Carshalton on 4 March 1826.
He was apprenticed for four years to a surgeon, and studied medicine with the intention of adopting a medical life as his profession, but abandoned it for chemistry.
After undergoing a course of instruction at the Royal College of Chemistry, he became an assistant to August Wilhelm Hofmann at the Royal School of Mines. In 1854, he gave lectures in chemistry at the Panopticon in Leicester Square, London, but that institution did not last long, and Ansell accepted from Thomas Graham, in November 1856, a situation in the Royal Mint. In 1859, the Royal Mint rejected a batch of gold that was found to be too brittle for the minting of gold sovereigns.
Analysis revealed the presence of small amounts of antimony, arsenic and lead.
With Ansell"s background in chemistry, he persuaded the Royal Mint to allow him to experiment with the alloy and was ultimately able to produce 167,539 gold sovereigns. The only identifying feature to single out an "Ansell" sovereign is the presence of an additional line on the ribbon, used to tie back Victoria"s hair.
Today, only 15 - 25 examples of this coin are known to exist and are therefore extremely rare & collectable. He remained at the Royal Mint for more than ten years, when differences of opinion between him and its chiefs led to the loss of his position.
A contemporary history suggests his criticisms influenced the Coinage Acting 1870.
After his retirement, and until his death on 21 December 1880, he practised as an analyst. Ansell devoted much attention to the dangers arising from firedamp in collieries, and made a valuable series of experiments on the subject in the Ince Hall colliery near Wigan. The ‘firedamp indicator’, which he subsequently patented, was adopted with considerable success in many of the collieries on the continent.
Foreign the cyclopædia of Charles Tomlinson he wrote a treatise on coining—one hundred copies of which were struck off for private circulation—and his work on the Royal Mint was an amplification of this article.
This volume first appeared in 1870, and was reissued in the next year. Its popularity was somewhat marred by the introduction of the narrative of his quarrels with his colleagues in the office, but it contained much information not to be found elsewhere.
Several articles on the subjects in which he took most interest were contributed by him to the seventh edition of Andrew Ure"s ‘Dictionary of Arts’.
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