This was the museum at the Jamestown settlement called the Archaneum museum. The building holds the excavated finds from the Jamestown settlement -- from pre-contact native artifacts to a surprising number of things from the first decades including named clay pipes, pottery, armor, a couple of skeletons and a skull that shows pretty clear marks of cannibalism from the Starving Time. The coins take up a single case, but it's informative and touches on why they were used,as well as the Nuremberg jetons that were something of a surprise.

It's nice to know some places take coins seriously and understand their importance. Jamestown is one such place, but it was a bit unexpected to see so many coins found at the site since I thought most trade was done by exchange! But there were ships from elsewhere in Europe that came here too, and coins from all over.