James, you do not need a table for Roth's C/S routine. In fact if memory serves correct, the standing handling is written up in COINMAGIC. You just switch coins openly at your fingertips instead of openly on the table. And you display the changes by pushing the coins out to your fingertips instead of on the table.

Larry,
I'm very interested in your book. Will check it out on the web.
Dan,
I will try that handling. Thanks a lot for the tip. Just to make sure, you're saying this move it done after the palm to palm change?
Thanks,
Jim

I love Paul Cummings routine from Up In Smoke, but that darn back clip still kills me about 30% of the time. Oh well, back to practicing

Stone's Glove routine is quite nice, but Roth's routine can be jazzed up, while already being visual and interactive (heaven forbid we interact with our audiences).

Roth's routine also works with different changes: a DeManche change or Edge Grip to Edge Grip change can help with displaying things at chest level while taking advantage of killer angles.

There's even that Coercive Purse routine by...oh...what's that guys name again? I think it begins with a "C"?

Sharpace, I don't know which is the best C/S trick, as you can see from the above posts, there's a million of them. Some think their own is the best (wouldn't you know it) and others think they've seen one here or there that just blows most others away...In some cases perhaps they are both right as there are many versions of this old standby and quickie as there are Matrixes.

I'm gonna go somewhat radically sacreligious here and bring up Jay Sankey...Shhhhhhh. I seem to remember in his Revolutionary Coin Magic dvd, he uses a move called the "Palm-Up" Han Ping Chien. It's interesting, as always Sankey is pretty creative with making up things that at times are pretty cute...This is one of them. He does a short little C&S thing to illustrate a primary move in his trick "One By One." He uses the old C/S gaff and a regular half. He switches the coins with the move very nicely, and it's about the only copper silver transpo like this that I know of on a mat especially in this unique(?) way. The use of the C/S coin makes it look very magical, but the move (PUHPC) is what makes it happen. It's probably not the best, but it's pretty cute and in Jay's hands, the way he can use T/GP, pointing vanish and the regular HPC...He can have you going crazy with this for hours (check out his Mexican Jumping Coins). With just a little practice of the move, you'll develop a real cutey and perhaps the workings to go even further with it. Like I said, not the best but quite interesting of the C/S variety. Think he also does another quickie on the dvd with the C/S gaff, remember that being pretty creative too. There's a lot good stuff on that dvd, quiet as it's kept. Not a lot of high-brow stuff perse (it replaces a lot of the usual sort of academic pretention with zany humor - sometimes it works, sometimes not), but loads of interesting uses of sleights and approaches from someone clearly not of the cookie cutter variety in magic...it's a lot of stuff you can do right away to blow folks out there shoes, or maybe even to steal them without them knowing it.

3 words......CopSilBrass......or is that 1 word? LOL

Geoff Lattas routine is one of my favorite routines with a copper/silver coin. I think David Roth says that its the best use of the gaff he'd ever seen. The routine can be found in the Geoff Latta Section of Kaufman Coin Magic....