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Hi. My names Dom and this is my first post after using this forum for a week now. Seems a great place to read and learn about magic and perfect for a beginner like myself.

I've made a few purchases over the last few days after researching many threads in my quest to learn more about magic... so thanks to some very constructive threads on here, I hopefully have made some good decisions!!!

I now have:

1) Bobos MCM book
2) The Royal Road TCM book
3) 3 packs of red Bicycle decks
4) Red Ultimate Marked Deck
5) Eddie Gibson coin unique (I know it maybe against the traditional ethics of magic and a bit of a 'trick' but I liked the sound of it despite forking out 30 quid)

... and a couple of 2 pence pieces that cost me 4p.


My question is this....

I bought the 'Eddie Gibson' Coin Unique from here


http://www.coopermagic.co.uk/prodshow.asp?prodcode=CO102

I took a while to find a site that categorically sold an 'Eddie Gibson' and was prepared to spend the extra wedge on one after reading many good reviews.

It arrived this morning but I was just wondering if you think its Kosher.
I wouldn't be completely happy handing it out for inspection as there is definitely some 'play' and 'click' in the coin top and with my finger I can spin the 'heads' side round albeit slowly.

...am I being picky? I was expecting to recieve an unbelievable item!!!

Thanks
Dom

...just thought of another thing that may help someone define whether it is an 'Eddie'.
The paper that came with it was just two photocopied pieces of A4 with 'Frustrated Coin' printed at the top and 5 descriptions of vanishes. It doesn't even seem to be the right instructions for this trick!

... no mention of Eddie Gibson.

Welcome to TM

You've made some good first purchases there and the only thing that I would have added is a TT - you'll have to work out what that is as we don't explain further in public view

As for the Gibson coin, it's not unusual for there to be a 'little' play but when was the last time that you saw someone looking that closely at a coin. I hand mine out all of the time and it never gets spotted because people don't know what they are looking for anyway. The secret is in how you present this effect

You usually do get a set of Gibson printed instructions that if memory serves me correctly, has about five sheets included. I see no reason to have these swapped out for their own instructions. I'm NOT accusing the dealer of any wrong doing but there is a lot of fake Gibson coins out there and I've been stung a couple of times myself buying what was advertised as a Gibson when it cleary wasn't.

If you take a couple of digital photo's of the inside of the shell and email them to me (PM me if you want take this up and I'll PM you back with my email address) then I will let you know if it looks like a genuine Gibson or not.

Just a tip. I don't go around handing people my coins, or anything else for that matter. Why would I do such a thing? It is almost a challange to a spectator when you hand something out to them to be examined. I handle gimmic's as I would anything else. I will give it to a spectator to hold while I look for a pen or whatever and then take it back. As far as the spectator is concerned they have handled it when in reality they didn't look at it twice. More often then not I don't even go that far. And I am very rarely challenged. Why? It is all in experience unfortunatly there is no shortcut.

I agree with what you say but you will also find you are often asked by specs if they can check the coin, more often than not because they don't know what happened and they are trying to eliminate possibilities.

I've found that with the quality of the Gibson coin you can allow this to be handled with confidence for a few moments and you then need an excuse to take it back after a few seconds.

There are very few, and I mean very few gimmicks that you can allow the specs to handle but this is one of them in my opinion.

eh thanks for the replies everyone, dat I've pm'ed you - got the photos you were asking to look at.

Ta

Dom

I have a routine with my coin unique which means I end up switching the coin with a real £1 (or 2p / 10p - whichever version you have) which means it can all be handed out after - even allows you to 'use the spectators money' (with a bit of practice with patter etc - great purchases though - I have been into magic for a while but have litterally only just purchased some new 'must have' books:

RRTCM (from amazon - just the book, not the 5DVD set yet)
Bobo's 'Modern Coin Magic - 116 Coin Sleights and 236 Coin Tricks'

2 GREAT Books, which I would SERIOUSLY reccommend if you do any kind of close up / street style magic

Dan
aka trev

Dom McCormack wrote:... and a couple of 2 pence pieces that cost me 4p.

Can you post a link? Been looking everywhere for these...

~Sym~