In May of this year (2023) I was in Scotland on a family trip and was fortunate to meet for an hour with the Curator of the Numismatic Collection at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. As stated on the museum website,

The Hunterian owns one of the most extensive numismatic collections in the world. It was initially formed by Dr. William Hunter (1718-1783), who collected in several areas and donated his collections to establish this museum at the University of Glasgow, his alma mater.

Dr. Hunter was a pioneer in Obstetrics & Gynecology, eventually being appointed Physician Extraordinary to Queen Charlotte, consort of George III. He is recognized for his important research with a bio on the website of the National Institutes of Health in the US:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/
PMC7960833/

In his later years Hunter turned his attention to collecting coins and medals, sending agents all over Europe to acquire items (when you have money, you can hire people to build your collection!).

An article by Robert W. Hoge in the American Journal of Numismatics (ANS) on US colonials in the collection includes a history of the collection as a whole:

Other collections have been added over the years. One major gift came from the estate of Thomas Coats (1809-1883), a Scottish industrialist. Another gift came from J.R. Lockie, an expert on Scottish communion tokens.

The current Curator of Numismatics at The Hunterian is Jesper Ericsson, who welcomed me to Kelvin Hall on a sunny Wednesday morning (May 17, 2023). I had expressed interest in Scottish and British trade tokens, as well as US colonials, and trays were waiting for me upon arrival.

(The US Colonial representation is small but mighty, including especially fine examples from Massachusetts and Maryland!)

Jesper himself is warm and friendly. Born in Sweden, he grew up in the UK and studied History at the University of Edinburgh. Jesper worked in military museums for a decade before joining The Hunterian in 2015 as a Curatorial Assistant, working under Dr Donal Bateson. His first role was to catalogue William Hunter's extensive collection of British historical medals and curate the accompanying exhibition 'Moments in History'. After Dr Bateson's retirement in 2019, Jesper took over as Curator of Numismatics.

Sources

Hunterian Museum website:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/collections/collectionssummaries/coinsandmedals/

Seventeenth-Century American Coins in the Hunterian Museum
Author(s): Robert W. Hoge
Source: American Journal of Numismatics (1989-) , 2011, Vol. 23 (2011), pp. 229-256 Published by: American Numismatic Society

Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43619981

from HISTOIRE DES COLLECTIONS NUMISMATIQUES ET DES INSTITUTIONS VOUÉES À LA NUMISMATIQUEhttps://inc-cin.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/collections-scotland.pdf