British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

City of London, Exchange Alley [Change Alley], Morat’s Coffee House [Walter Elford], cast brass Penny, morat ye great men did me call, rev. where eare i came i conqverd all, coffee chocolat tea sherbett & tobac sould in exchaing allie, 5.63g/6h (N 6884; BW. 967; Berry, Pepys pp.121-2). Fine £100-150

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

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Provenance: DNW Auction 128, 11 February 2015, lot 612 (part).

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