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LONDON 17th CENTURY TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF QUENTIN ARCHER (PART 1)
BRITISH TOKENS, 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
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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
BRITISH TOKENS, 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
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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