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The E-Sylum: Volume 20, Number 15, April 9, 2017, Article 15

JAMESTOWN COINS AND COUNTERS EXHIBIT

Reader Jeff Rock of San Diego visited Jamestown, Virginia this week and he shared these images of coins seen there. -Editor

Jamestown Coins and COunters exhibit Jamestown Coins and COunters exhibit2

Jeff writes:

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.

Jamestown coin hoard exhibit

Jamestown coin exhibit

For more information, see:
http://historicjamestowne.org/



Wayne Homren, Editor

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