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City of London, Exchange Alley [Change Alley], Morat’s Coffee House [Walter Elford], copper Penny, morat ye great men did call me where eare i came i conqverd all, coffee tobacco sherbet tea and chocolat retal’d, 5.10g/6h (N 6882; BW. 965; Berry, Pepys pp.121-2). Weak at top (and corresponding on reverse), otherwise fine £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer.

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Provenance: G. Berry Collection, DNW Auction T11, 11 April 2012, lot 193 [from Seaby 1970].

Walter Elford (b. 1611), merchant, proprietor of The Great Turk, which existed from at least 1662 until it was burnt down in the Great Fire, which Elford survived