I like using a Sun & Moon coin for Copper /silver transpos as well. I do an extended CS routine, and there's something about being able to show both coins on both sides after each transposition that I really like. Not to mention the final "open handed" change.

All the Best,

Mike

One handed one coin routine from Ellison Poland's "Wonderful Routines of Magic". You show an empty hand, reach out and produce a half, it changes to an English penny, back to a half and then completely vanishes - all with one hand!

Or, there is a trick I cannot remember the name of in Bobo. The coin appears, vanishes, and reappears, all the while you are describing the spectator's senses and your control of them. It can't be seen, then can't be felt, then can. Another impossible-looking, off-beat, one coin miracle!

The Kaps C/S with the S&M gaff is superb, and Presto-Chango is excellent.

Note: these thing all appear to be done with one or two coins. Direct, simple to follow, magical, apparently impromptu.

Cigarette thru quarter and the previously mentioned cap and pence are other wonderfully impromptu-looking effects. Do the cap and pence with borrowed quarters and a bill. Check out Klause's Whisper, or the Allerton, Don Alan, and Al Baker versions. And don't forget Scotty York's "Nickle Saver", though I doubt that you can buy one currently...

You could try Devant's "Coins in Envelope" from "Lessons in Conjuring", or Ponsin has a great trick with a coin and a box and a telescope...

If you want to KILL someone, and can set the tone, Robert-Houdin's first coin trick in "Secrets of Conjuring and Magic" is an extraordinary lesson in conjuring...

And then there is the infamous "Legend of the Flying Coin", the best version of the coins across plot ever to be unreleased - If anyone could convince RB to let it go it might just revolutionize coin magic...

Best, PSC

Penny to miniature Dime and leaving miniature dime in spectator hand as a gift to remember you by.

Shadow Coins. When done properly, it's just magic.

I have been playing with a routine where four coins are produced, vanished one at time and produced again individually. (Both hands are shown clean along the way and no gaffs. Routine ends with a special surprise)

Hanging Coins, Chink-A-Chink, and the good old matrix

Bent Copper/Silver Transposition by Paul Harris
Matchbox Treasury by Michael Rubinstein
Giant Killer Coin by Paul Harris

My favorite has recently changed to an original effect that I call "The Totem". It's a four coin materialization, hand to hand transpo, ending in transpo in spectator's hand. I felt a little conceited picking my own effect, but the more I perform it, the more I like it. It just has a good flow, and draws good reactions.

Well, now that we're all pretty certain that Mike is an egotistical
ba#!%rd...

All the Best,

Mike

Not at all, Mike. I think most of us have a certain love for the effects we create ourselves. Just like children -- no one else's is ever as cute or as clever as our own.

It's more fun when other folks adopt your tricks. After you publish them of course.

"After", being the operative word there Jonathan?

I'd accept with a grin the adoption of my effects at pretty much any stage... before, during, or after publication. "Imitation is the most sincere form of ....". Although, if I were in your shoes, I'd most likely feel very different about the subject.

Rob - Thanks for not taking the easy road and bashing my affection for my own "children". I'll remember that, and stick up for you if you ever come off in a poor way on this chat board

Best to All, and back to topic...

Mike

Mike, your totem trick got me thinking.

Have you tried the classic coin load moves out of Edge Grip? I didn't bother to write them up in my little booklet on Edge Grip Mechanics way back when as it seemed obvious. Anyway, you can use the totem to bring forth wealth if you are willing to pay the price

Jonathan - No, I haven't tried edge gripping instead of classic, but having just tried it, I see your point. The added effect of the hands barely coming into contact, and then, only at the finger tips is very nice. The only drawback I can see is the reduction in "angle-friendliness" that edge grip can create.

But, running it through, coin #1 could come from the edge, coin #2 could arrive from classic, which would also reduce repitition nicely, and really confound spectators.

My favorite, right now, is Ron Bauer's Gadabout Coins revisited. Great script for a great trick.

Does anyone else do Slydini's Coins Thru Table as a coins across? Having three coins travel at once is a killer but the main move takes a ton of practice. At least it did for me.

Tom

Trio in Three By Gary Kurtz
The Coin That Falls Up
A Charming Chinese Challenge by Troy Hooser
Cylinder and Coins by Ramsey
Big Coin, Little Purse by Garrett Thomas

Dave2Lift, how is the Ramsay Cylinder and Coins working for you in performance?

I actually haven't performed it yet as I'm still working on it. But I love the idea of it with the cork and everything and the vanishes look cool. When I do perform it for a lay audience I'll let you know.

I like the old "nickels to dimes" gimmick, but don't forget to reproduce those vanished nickels somewhere else!
BWind

My favorite by far is Sankey's Mr Clean coins across. Very impromptu and uses everyday quarters.

Sticky Coins

Knee-zy Vanish

^ Very easy routines. Nuclear impact