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Just like to say, completely random, but after thorougly trying out the 10 p trick today, it has worked EVERY time, and it never ceases to amaze. Simple, but ridiculously effective. I've also cut out the second part and done it over the phone!

if you've not got Tomo's Naked Mentalism book, there's a whole section on coins taking Derren's thinking as a leaping off point...

and if you like those sorts of things, NM is the thing to get, especially as it explains why people think and say the things they do...

Cant wait to get mine!!!
NM that is!

It is a fine book. Any publication that has a section dedicated to 'Downright Failure' gets my vote

Can you explain the effect ?

FRK wrote:Can you explain the effect ?

It's an impromptu effect where you have the spectator take out a 10p and immediately tell them the mint date on the back. It's a corker, frankly. I expanded it to use any UK gold or silver denomination.

Can you explain the effect ?

Although Tomo explained it, and even gave it his own twist, I will give a slightly more detailed description.

You ask the spectator to take out a coin, a 10p for instance, and while you are completely turned away, not looking, not even in the same room, you ask him/her to note the year the coin was made. Then you ask him/her to project that number, to you, where you slowly, or however you wish to present it name the number.

The additional part of the effect is that after you have named it, the spectator closes there hand again, concentrates, opens there hand and the coin has bent.

What is great about the date reading, theres absolutely nothing particularly dodgy about it. Clean as a whistle.

I did however have an instance over the phone yesterday, where I was wrong, and when they told me the date, I was quite shocked. They may have ben trying to trick me, who knows. But once out of more than ten is not a problem.

****Editied because of Wild Cards advice. Did not want to give anything away****

I'm not sure whether you should really be saying that in the open forum, If you have the book, PM me and i'll explain why whats changing etc.

gh256 wrote:Derren said he was only letting people know about this because it would soon become impossible. Are they making newer 10p's then? Could that be why the date was wrong.

They mint several million coins of all denominations every year. The stats show a very even distribution across years, whihc makes it such a good effect. People start looking at their other coins and see that the dates have no pattern.

Hmm have edited post but just realised I have been quoted. Could my "quote" be removed please?

gh256, I'm not fortunate enough to own Pure Effect but I don't think your original post gave anything away. Your comments probably meant more to people who are familiar with the method and so sounded like it may have been exposure. To someone like me, it meant nothing and certainly didn't tip the method.

Or it could just be me being thick. Yeah, I guess there's always that....

I thought that we had moved on from Derren's 10p to Tomo's wider and more impressive version in NM, but no matter. I had not realised that PE was now such a rarity - I would have looked after my copy better

i just came back to say the same thing as bigtone..tomo's one is far better - as you have a wider scope of coin to choose from...

i always carry a pre-bent 10p of that particular date...

It wouldn't happen to work with american coins would it?