Obv: (mullet)THESVTANESSACOFFEEHOVSE , around veiled head of a Sultaness left.
Rev: (mullet)INSWEETINGSRENTSCORNHIL , around shield containing Family Arms.
M Dickinson 3029. Dies as Norweb 7711.

The most famous coffee-house keeper was Thomas Garraway, whose establishment flourished in Exchange Alley from 1668/70 until the late nineteenth century. It began in Sweeting's Rents by the Royal Exchange, where Thomas Garway and his wife Elizabeth were living by early 1658. Thomas appears from a notice in Mercurius Politicus to have been the first retailer of leaf tea in England `at the Sultaness­head, a Cophee-house'. Dr Kenneth Rogers drew support from this advertisement for his suggestion that Garraway was the issuer of this anonymous token.
London Numismatic Club Meeting, 3 October 2006, Robert Thompson.

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