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first of all: it's called 'coin extraction' on the emagictricks website but everyone will know it as coin unique

The Effect
you have a £2 and a 50p coin in yours (or the spectators) hand, you (they) close your (their) hand and the 50p disappears. Of course there are many ways this can be used as utility item as well as just the straight vanish. I know there's at least 2 or 3 other threads about this kind of thing so don't ask me, go and use the search button ya scallywag!


Cost £38




Difficulty 1.5
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)



Review
First things first, at almost twice the cost of the £1/1p version, this is expensive, there's no getting around it. BUT, my word is a thing of beauteous wonder. There has been talk elsewhere on this forum of people being worried about the spec finding the gimmick, but with this i have no fear whatsoever, i've been using this for a couple of weeks and every time i have left it in the specs hand for them to inspect as closely as they wish and they have never found a thing. as a result i have found the gimmick a little hard to remove at times, there's no way i could do it without a m**n*t, but i think it is worth the sacrifice.

I love the colour contrast of the £2 coin and the 50p. I love that the 50p is a different shape to the £2 which makes it seem even more impossible (For those of you who already know how coin unique works, this point may be slightly baffling, and its a very sneaky solution they've come up with. And no, the orientation of the 50p doesn't matter).

Having not owned any other variations of coin unique I'm afraid i cannot compare, but to suffice to say i am over the moon with this one. This is a very well made piece of kit, top notch quality. So far i've just stuck to the coin vanish in the specs hands, equivoqe-ing the 50p, this is a real brain-melter when done in the specs hands and the unbelievably complicated solutions that people come up with has given me a good chuckle.

equivoque tip: the VAST majority in my experience choose the £2. If they do, don't say anything, just do the vanish, this is SO much stronger than saying 'okay you chose £2 so that leaves the 50p which we will make disappear and all that muck), once the £2 is left they will make the connection in their own mind. I did this to a magical matey who only does cards and knows full well about equivoque, and straight away he said 'what do you do if they choose the 50p?' ha! when they do choose the 50p i tend to say, okay, lets make it disappear, I'm not quite sure that doing the vanish without explaining in this situation will work, you may disagree.



Overall 9/10
beautifully made, beautiful effect, lose 1 point for the cost, but if i lose this (by which i mean spend it in the pub) i am definately buying another one straight away. very highly recommended.

Thanks for the great review, Will - really nice work!

We also have a Coin Unique review of Eddie Gibson's £1/1p (here: ftopic56.php), but as this is a different denomination and manufacturer, it's nice to have your review as a seperate topic.

I got my £2/50p CU from international and, as I'm sure the London meet guys will testify, it is brilliant.

I have the 10p/2p CU but this one is so much better. The different shapes just make the effect baffling.

Oh, and doing the vanish under a pint glass is my current favourite.

Rob wrote:Thanks for the great review, Will - really nice work!

We also have a Coin Unique review of Eddie Gibson's £1/1p (here: ftopic56.php" target="_blank), but as this is a different denomination and manufacturer, it's nice to have your review as a seperate topic.

Thanks Rob. I was very aware of going over old ground with this, but i thought as the first thing i did when i was looking at buying this was to look for a review on here, there must be other people doing the same. I tried to answer all the questions i had before purchasing in the review, but if anyone has anything they want to ask, feel free to PM me. Obviously I'm not going to give away the secret though!

I should have said in the review: I'm pretty much exclusively a cardman, and i wanted something to give some variation to my set that was really easy to do. This fits the bill perfectly, whats slightly annoying is that this is the trick people are most impressed with. All those hours spent practicing cards and this sodding, pretty-much-self-working thing that requires almost zero skill is the thing that they want to see again! Gotta laugh i suppose


okay nearly done: i was a little torn because alakazam sell the same thing for £45, and i was thinking higher price=better quality and maybe i'd rather spend a few extra quid for something that i feel really confident with and can rely on. In the end frugality got the better of me, i went with cheaper one, and I'm very happy i did.

All those hours spent practicing cards and this sodding, pretty-much-self-working thing that requires almost zero skill is the thing that they want to see again! Gotta laugh i suppose

That happens time and time again, the more we learn and the more we practice, the less we realise that specs don't care about the hours of practice or the difficulty level, all they want to see is something totally impossible and this kind of item delivers that big time!

he said 'what do you do if they choose the 50p?' ha! when they do choose the 50p i tend to say, okay, lets make it disappear

Or you could just say What 50p?

Very nice review. I've been trying to decide on one of these effects and I think you have made up my mind. The extra cost will be worth it for having such contrasting coins I think, thank you.

Out of stock. Would have been nicer if they told me this before paying.

Well two days after telling me it's out of stock it arrived, not sure how that happened but full marks to them for getting it sorted out quickly.

I can confirm that this is a high quality product with a difficulty rating of 1 as its very easy to do. The 50p is not examinable and it is possible for it to be spotted but I would say highly unlikely as long as you don't leave it on display for to long.

When the 2 are 1 it's examinable and detection would be near to impossible.

I put this in my pocket and went off to find a m*g**t. On removing it from my pocket I was not to happy to find I couldn't separate it and the m*g**t had no effect what so ever As I was preparing to phone the shop to give them a piece of my mind I discovered that I had taken the wrong £2 coin out of my pocket and had been trying to separate it for 5 minutes

Just be careful with it in the pub, Karma; I've lost count of all the members here, who've spent their CU's over the years....I kid you not!!

And here it is

EDIT

I've redone the the vid due to bad lighting the first time, so again; here it is

http://youtu.be/pNP5jU2-SQE

My set arrived earlier this week and it's good, very good indeed. Even though I know where it's gone, there's no way I'd believe a 50p coin would disappear like that! To reset it rather than pull with a neo, I put it round the otherside and push - no contact between neo and coin therefore no chance of marks!

I use a m*g**t in my back pocket and the material acts as padding, protecting the coin.The more I play with this the more I like it. I did think that the EG £1/1p was better looking but my daughter figured that out correctly but still can't understand how this one works and she is quite sharp with these things

I ordered this last week, and can't wait for it to arrive. I already have the 2p/10p version from International Magic Shop. Does anyone else agree that the coin can't be inspected after the trick (2p/10p version)? Every time I've handed it out, the spectators have noted that the coin "feels" different, my coin also makes a slight clicking noise when manipulated in certain ways, which then makes it obvious that it is a gimmick. Maybe my coin is slightly damaged? To be honest, I don't really mind if in general it's best that it's not examined, but I don't like the idea that it should be able to but I can't due to my dodgy coin.

But that's the 2p/10p version which wasn't from emagictricks, this £2/50p one sounds a lot safer. But just out of curiosity, should my 2p/10p version be fully examinable, I mean, is that slight clicking sound when the coin is pushed in certain ways normal?

When metal meets metal there's always going to be a noise of some kind, just cover the sound with some patter and nobody will take much notice. The £2/50p version I have could easily be examined with nothing to give away the secret but it’s not usually a good idea to encourage specs to handle the props except under your control and when the item is truly innocent. Depending on how you use this gimmick you can focus attention on the discovery of the vanished 50p and ditch the £2 or exchange it for a genuine one unseen.