Green’s Dictionary of Slang

coal and coke adj.

also coals and coke
[rhy. sl. = broke adj.1 ]

penniless, impoverished.

[UK]J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
[UK]S.T. Kendall Up the Frog.
[UK](con. 1930s) J. Wolveridge Ain’t it Grand 44: Even when I was nearly Stone Coals and Coke I could usually scrape up enough for a smoke.
[UK](con. 1930s) Barltrop & Wolveridge Muvver Tongue 18: A hard-up person is [...] ‘stone coals and coke’.
[UK]R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit.