Coins, Chips & Buttons in Magic & Conjuring: page 5

A Copper/Silver transportation in which the performer's hands never touch the coins.

A copper coin in the hands of one spectator changes places with a silver coin in another spectator. The performer is across the room and never touches the coins at all! No gaffs or gimmicked coins. Everything can be handled and is.

This effect can easily combine with other C/S effects, and the unique "Tweener" method can be applied to other effects.

1st edition 2021, 4 pages.

An "almost perfect" production of four individual coins from thin air. This is ideal as a prelude for an effect like Coins Across, Coins Thru Table or even 3Fly.

1. both hands are displayed as completely empty
2. a coin is snatched from the air by the openly shown right fingers
3. a second coin is seen to visibly materialize and is plucked for thin air by the left fingers
4. the righthand coin is added to the one on the left palm with both hands shown otherwise empty (Note: There is no movement to the body and then hands never touch - no gaffs either.)
5. a third coin is seen to materialize in the air...

Excerpt from the Foreword:

A gradual transposition of three silver coins and three golden coins with an unexpected climax. Two routines.

Many methods have been devised for the classical effect wherein three coins pass invisibly through space to join three more. "Dubbelkross" and "Simulkross" are two further variations on the same theme; but, not only are the methods altered, the effects are, too. In fact, "Dubbelkross" represents the first attempt (as far as I know) at giving this transposition a definite climax. "Simulkross" does not pretend to give a startling climax, but is interesting because coins pass simultaneously...

Jose Castineiras is an accomplish young magician from Spain. In this download video you will get the full performance and explanation of two coin routines, Coin Glass and Coins Across, as well as his innovative use of the muscle pass.

"Jose is one of my favorite coinmen: the best muscle-pass I've ever seen, the best technique and execution transferred to many his personal routine...Great!" - Giacomo Bertini

1st edition 2016, length 26 min

Note that different moves and techniques have been called 'Gypsy Switch' over the decades. See for example a technique to switch bills using an envelope: Gypsy Switch. The technique described here by Jon Racherbaumer uses a handkerchief and is mostly used with coins, but the basic technique is flexible and utilitarian, which means any object that is conveniently flat and compact can be switched for a similar object, using a handkerchief. This includes objects such as coins, poker chips, billets, cards (business and torn playing card pieces), and folded currency.

In its antecedent form this move appeared...

A classic routine explained in detail with almost 50 photographs.

Excerpt from the preface by John Ramsay:

Develop your coin magic skills and presentations.

John McLachlan, and six of his magic colleagues in Toronto, present a 112 page eBook of coin magic to help you enchant and entertain. They begin with a dozen relatively easy Cool Moves which can be used almost immediately for impromptu quick effects at the coffee shop or in small groups. These are also used as building blocks for the more than a dozen Performance Pieces. (It is assumed the reader knows basic coin moves such as palming and your time is not wasted by repeating what most magicians know.) There are, however, some astonishing moves...

Four new effects using cards and coins.

"Good stuff! I really like the quarter trick ("25 Cents")." - Cameron Francis

"I really enjoyed watching these clips." - John Carey

Meet Chip: A fun, easy, and commercial routine with a signed poker chip.

A Chance Meeting: It's gambler vs. mentalist vs. magician time - hold on to your hats, people.

25 Cents: You predict a randomly chosen coin; simple but effective coin magic to liven up any card act. Includes a great variation by John Carey!

It's Still a Mystery: My short, snappy approach to the mystery card plot, inspired by Paul Gordon and John Carey. ...

This is an independent reinvention of Arthur Buckley's muscle pass by John Cornelius. John turned the move into a showpiece by itself.

runtime: 3min 20s

A classic publication with wonderful coin magic, some card tricks and cut and restored rope. Slydini adopted some routines from Benzais.

• The "Coins Through The Table"
  • First Effect (For One Coin)
  • Second Effect (For Two Coins)
  • Third Effect (For Four Coins)
  • Han Ping 'Benzais'
  • With Six Coins
  • Something Extra The Benzais Grip
  • Again With Six Coins
  • It Doesn't Belong Here
  • One Handed Method
• Just A Few More "Coin Tricks"
  • 5c For Your Thoughts
  • The Benzais Concealment
  • Transit Dime
  • Follow-Up For Transit
  • A Simple Vanish
  • Another Simple Vanish
  • Not So Simple
• Different Types Of Card Tricks ...

Change a lighter into a box of matches; transform a silver dollar into a watch. Here’s a collection of eight dazzling close up transformations sure to elicit appreciative gasps from any audience. And the best part? They’re all relatively easy to do. Add some visual zip to your next performance and really make them sit up and take notice.

Hot Sqeeze - Your lighter doesn’t work but your solution is simple: Change the lighter into a full box of real matches.

Silver Press - Show a ball of metal, mash it between your hands, and it becomes a silver dollar. A hyper visual feat that’s...

Offering to demonstrate a secret exercise that master pickpockets use to sharpen their skills, a small coin purse, a half dollar and a metal washer are given out for examination. The magician explains that the idea is to place the half dollar in the purse, which he does, and cause it to change places with the washer. The first time he merely rubs the washer along the bottom edge of the purse, yet when he brings his hand away it’s seen he’s holding the half dollar. The washer is dumped from the purse.

For the second phase, the half is placed in the purse and the washer is held at the...

Imagine this: You borrow a quarter from a spectator and have it initialed with a Sharpie marker. You take a pack of cigarettes and place the quarter on top of the pack. You have the spectator cover the quarter with a hand and say you’ll cause the coin to pass completely through the pack. You make a magical pass and have the spectator lift her hand. Only...the quarter’s still there. You ask the spectator to pick up the quarter. She tries but her fingers slide right over the coin. Impossibly the coin is under the cellophane! You clearly show the pack is unopened and unmarked in any way. You...

You could start this effect like this:

Have you ever known a great salesman? I mean the kind of person who consistently outperforms his colleagues, who’s able to maintain a high level of sales even during economic slumps? Some years ago I became aware of a study of such individuals, and what was especially intriguing is that each seemed to have the innate ability to project his will upon others, to influence prospective customers in such a way that they invariably did what he wanted. I began to wonder if it was possible to hone one’s own influence to such a degree, and I’d like to share...

Watch and learn Jerry's masterpiece of coin magic. Four silver dollars are produced one at a time, first from between two freely chosen cards, and the last two coins from a single playing card which is torn smaller and smaller.

There are no difficult moves in this routine. The ingenuity of Jerry is how he steals, hides and moves the coins behind pieces of cards.

Recorded live at the Convention at the Capital 2000.

runtime: 7min 25s

EFFECT: The performer shuffles a deck of cards and fans them out, explaining that he will use the two cards wherever the spectator says, "Stop." At the spectators indication the performer stops and removes the two cards at that point. Both hands and both cards are shown on both sides and without further manipulation the two cards are placed together face to face, and a silver dollar is seen to slowly emerge from between them.

After rolling up his sleeves and again showing his hands empty, the performer picks up the deck from the table and shuffles it again. The cards are fanned out, and again...

Five coin tricks, a move and coin holders, by Jerry Andrus:

• Double Dollars
• Ball and Coin Routine
• Multiplying Dollars
• Three Coins Across
• A Coin Move
• Dollar Bill Delusion
• Coin Holders

1st edition 1973, PDF 26 pages.

The Effect: The magi weaves a story of smuggling Pesos across the Mexican border. Then demonstrates by placing a signed Peso in one hand and an empty (just examined) film canister in the other hand. The spectators hold onto the hand with the peso to keep it from escaping ... yet the other hand (no where near the peso hand) shakes the Film Canister ... silence ... silence ... then suddenly you HEAR the coin appear in the canister. It can be immediately handed to a spectator to open. No switches, no dups and everything is examinable before and after the performance. Don't believe me? Watch the...

Coin Magic by Hugard is a great and complete introduction to coin magic. It teaches all the important palms, transfers and utility moves. It is not as comprehensive as Bobo's Modern Coin Magic but quality wise it is on the same level. If you don't want to read the massive work of Bobo try this one by Hugard.

1st edition, 1935, Max Holden; reprint, 1972, D. Robbins & Co, New York; 88 pages.

2. CHAPTER I. BASIC PALMS AND CHANGES
   2. The Palm Proper
   3. The French Drop
   4. The French Drop - Variation
   4. The Pinch
   5. The Thumb Palm
   5. The Pick Up
   5. Changes
7. CHAPTER II. COIN TRICKS WITHOUT APPARATUS
   7. Coin and Card
   8. The Melting...

• May I Have A Word With You Please?
• Books by Jack Chanin
• CHAPTER 1: J. C. Streamlined Palming Coins
• CHAPTER 2: Working With Gloves
• CHAPTER 3: Tips
• CHAPTER 4: Sleeving
• CHAPTER 5: J. C. Palm
• CHAPTER 6: Requirements
• CHAPTER 7: Between The Fingers
• CHAPTER 8: Gone With The Flame
• CHAPTER 9: 6 from 11 - ?
• CHAPTER 10: J. C. Favorite
• CHAPTER 11: Knuckles
• CHAPTER 12: J. C. Master Production and Vanish
• CHAPTER 13: An Old Trick Dressed Up
• CHAPTER 14: Just A Production
• CHAPTER 15: Short and Sweet
• CHAPTER 16: Coin Migration

1st edition 1941, 31 pages; 1st digital edition 2017, 26 pages....

Some regard this book as the bible of coin magic. And it is indeed packed with moves and tricks. To be precise, there are 116 coin sleights and 236 coin tricks. If you consider adding a coin trick to your program look no further. This is the book for you. Any other book about coins references this one.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Without a doubt this is the most comprehensive textbook on coin magic. It is the revised and greatly enlarged version of Modern Coin Magic.

A modern treatise of ways of concealing, producing, altering and multiplying coins from the empty hands. The most complete manual of coin magic ever produced. Some of the subjects covered are:

• Palms
• Switches
• Steals
• Vanishes
• Cuffing
• Sleeving
• Coin Boxes
• Shells
• Trick Coins
• Routines

Ian describes carefully and in detail a number of beautiful and cool flourishes with chips. You are sitting at a blackjack table and you have won a stack of chips during the last plays. The dealer ran out of cards and has to shuffle his six decks, which takes a while. This is the ideal moment to impress with a few chip flourishes. Of course, all of these moves can also be executed with coins rather than chips. You will learn:

• The Pickup Move
• Roll Down
• Double Cut
• Shuffle on a soft surface
• Shuffle on a hard surface
• Shuffling tall stacks
• The Twirl
• The Triple Twirl
• The Reverse Twirl ...