Before anyone tells me the obvious, yes I have Kozmo's DVD. I'm looking for other work on one coin routines because when I first saw Koz's DVD I had assumed he was using silver dollars for some reason but after seeing lecture I learned he actually uses half's. After watching the DVD I went out and bought a silver dollar shell set not realizing Koz actually uses half's. But after working on it for a while now I have determined that I just CANNOT get the coin to securely fit in my with the speed and naturalness that the routine requires so the coin in eye is out.

I like the way Koz starts building his crowd with the one coin routine and would like to do the same as well but I need to develop a different routine because I don't want to sacrifice the coins I have only thing is I don't JACK about coins and I'm wondering if you guys could throw a few ideas my way as far as one coin routines go.

I have my one coin routine based on Koz's as well (My first effect of my routine too)and I do under foot and in eye but I have changed it a bit from after seeing Nick Nickolas having his coin come from his nose and getting great reactions, I'm sure you know that one... maybe not?

Not familiar with that one but thanks for pointing it out to me!

Eric Evans has a one coin routine, that he developed for street performance. It's on his dvd "The secret art of coin manipulation." He uses silver dollars, and he performes the coin to eye as well. His routine is different from the one of Kozmo, mainly it is presented in different speed and attitude. It ends with a repeated jumbo coin production.

I think Cellini used dollar sized coins.
I prefer dollar sized coins generally for busking and close-up. They show up well and make a lot more noise. I do a routine with 3 coins and find that to be a good number of dollar sized coins to comfortably CP.
I've avoided using ex s****s on the street for fear of dings on the pavement. I save them for close-up.

I don't do the coin to eye- monocle thing but dollars would fit as easily as halves.
It's your call really. If you've invested in the dollars, work with them. It's not like they're wrong. It just might take a while to get used to.
My personal opinion is that they'll be better in the long run for "chest level manipulations" for a crowd. Not so good for tabled card matrixes (matrices) and the like...
I'm waffling now......

I'd agree that the dollar is to big for a matrix, or a coins across into the spec's hand,I think half dollars are about the limit for either of those. Got to agree about not using a s***l as well (especially if you go to the all effort that Neal did to aquire one!).
Having messed about with a bit of 1 coin stuff, I'd have to say that dollar sized stuff works very well, but having different coins for different routines makes me uncomfortable so for me it's got to be halves.

Mac, for the coin work Study Eric's DVD..

The coin to eye bit is Eric's.... straight from his act.

I saw Eric do this live a lot on the street, and I think he was using Morgan Silver dollars.. They were slicks (the front and back were filed down) , and the coin had milled edges for grip

Anyone know where Eric's DVD is available?

You can PM Eric, he is a member here.

Thanks guys!