Collecting Old Glass, English and Irish

by Sir J. H. Yoxall

COINS IN THE BALUSTER STEMS

Two things may be looked for inside these stems—coins and “tears.” Sometimes one of the swelling-out parts of the baluster stem was large enough to enclose a small silver coin; a coin glass is exceedingly rare and correspondingly valuable, but the date of the coin does not necessarily indicate the date of the glass.