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When you practice your different coin moves, do you always practice them with both hands? Obviously you will want to practice some basic palms and false transfers etc. in both hands, but when you get to more difficult or specialist (for lack of a better word) moves, is it sufficient to just know it in one hand?

Fpr example, something like a Himber-Sankey Count or Vanish. Should you practice it equally with both hands or is knowing it in one hand enough?

I'd say you only need to know sleights using the hand you're most comfortable with. That way you are able to perform the sleights better and the effect is helped when you do that.

That depends entirely on whether you want to be sufficient or exceptional. If sufficient is fine with you, then you learn with one hand. If you aspire to a higher level than that, though, then you learn with both.

Normally, knowing a specific, difficult sleight with one hand is just fine. It's when you start trying to routine things that this will become an issue...For example, if you are trying to routine something and you need a coin (or coins) in a certain hand, but the sleight leaves them in the opposite hand (and you don't want to transfer those coins for absolutely no reason other than a "get ready"), then you'll need to be able to do the sleight with both hands equally. If you catch my drift...

Convincing coin magic is very different from cards. You obviously hold the deck in one, specific hand, so you don't need to train your deck hand for, say, a thumb count in preperation for a D/L. But, with coins, the coins will be going from hand to hand, body movement becomes important as well as body language. It is more of a "dance" than card magic.

This is why I strongly suggest that you train both hands to do the sleights.

But, again, it comes down to whether you want to be sufficient or exceptional.

Mike.