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I have the 2p/10p version, and my favourite routine is dragging a borrowed credit card over the coins while they are on the table, revealing just the 2p when it's passed. I use this at the end of my routine and finish by vanishing the 2p, either with a sleight or better still the raven.

I also like holding them at the tips of my fingers and waving my hand over them, pushing them together as my hand passes. Very visual!

Most gimmicks have a slight slag, however I was lucky and got (from top professional) a version where the crafty work is perfect and there is ABSOLUTELY no slag!

I prefer another handeling of the effect (a version that in my experience usually gets a stronger reaction). I cannot really explain the handeling here (also I do not have the permision from the person who showed me) but the idea is that you put a one pound coin and a one penny coin in a glass (tilted on the side) and ask a spectator to gently liftup the glass while holding on tight so there is no way any of the coins can escape the glas. But then suddently the one penny penetrates the glas (as well as the spectators hand) and falls onto the table!! The two coins can be examined and since there is no slag, the spectator looks for all the wrong explanations! (e.g. looks for trapdoors in the glass that were borrowed anyway!).

The traditional handeling has a slight weakness that an object disappears without reappearing again.

A great prop for all coin workers. Mine was so realistic I accidentally spent it! Didn't buy another one since I came up with a coin routine that didn't need it but highly recommended especially for beginner's. Killer effect.

i just got the £2/2p version for £28...from cards4magic, very high quality...

Soren Riis wrote: The traditional handeling has a slight weakness that an object disappears without reappearing again.

I get round this by revealing a 10p from either my mouth, underneath my watch or better still the spectators pocket!

I have this and got it (twice) from Mike Danata. Cant recommend him enough btw!! The first one i thought I'd spent but it was in the lighter pocket of my other jeans.


Anyway. The way that i like to perform this is impromptu at the bar. I quite like it as a way of introducing my self to ladies (ok, ok, so magic shouldnt just be used for this, but its the perfect trick in my opinion!) I generally say "don't you just hate it when you pay for something and get a £1 and a 1p change? what do you do with the penny?" Wait for the response, then say "Not many people realize that a £1 and a 1p react when rubbed together, watch" then perform the trick. It's generally a great talking piece and raelly breaks the ice.

People often say "dont perform the trick again" but with this the trick can be performed numerous times and not detected. For any other trick i have seen i would say dont perform it again though!!!

I LOVE THIS TRICK!!!!

Got one today after seeing Eddie Gibson wasn't making sterling ones on his website anymore. Excellent quality. Lots of nice possibilities. Two thumbs up.

I've come up with a great routine using one of those small (single portion) jam jars that you get in Hotels & B&Bs (in the breakfast buffet usually).
Wash out the jam jar (once you've enjoyed it on your toast of course!).
You can then perform the following miracles:
1. Place the CU penny on top of the lid whilst secretly holding a standard ma****ic penny underneath it, the CU penny holds the real penny secretly in place. Screw on the lid onto the jar, then carefully put the CU £ on the CU penny. Tell the spec to watch carefully as you cover the top of the jar with your palm. Once your happy that the CU is connected under your palm, give the jar a shake. The real penny will rattle around inside the jar, then lift your palm showing just the pound. The spec will believe the penny has magically penetrated the lid.
2. Next secretly reset your CU (easily done with the reactive real penny), then say 'to prove I'm not making any sleights or funny business - the magic will happen in a sealed jar" - put the two sections of the coin unique in the small jar (you can hide the real penny at this stage as you are finished with it). attach the lid and do the glass swirl move to join the two parts. The Spec will see that you have disappeared the penny from within the sealed jar!!
3. This is a great finale - due to the jar lid being metal you can take the routine further. Once you have completed part 2 you can then disappear the £1 simply by giving the jar a shake making sure the jar tips upside-down in the process. The CU will magnetically stick to the underside of the lid, and you can show an empty jar (just dont hold it up too high that the spec can see the underside of the lid).
If you're confident enough you can take the lid off - pass the glass jar to the Spec for examination and quickly remove the CU from under the lid before passing that over too, leaving yourself absolutely clean...

I'm pleased as punch with this routine - it blows people away!

I'm sure I have one of those jam jars somewhere... thank you!

Sounds really nice - thanks for sharing.

It was one of the first tricks I Ever bought and I still use it today. As well as being a great effect anyway, when I first started it helped me gain confidence when I was speaking to spectators as it is self working. I moved on to hopping halfs which I also love to use years after first trying it.

On the downside I am now on about my 4th or 5th one as i had a habit of spending my CU when drunk!!

pablo diablo 73 wrote:I've come up with a great routine using one of those small (single portion) jam jars that you get in Hotels & B&Bs (in the breakfast buffet usually).
Wash out the jam jar (once you've enjoyed it on your toast of course!).
You can then perform the following miracles:
1. Place the CU penny on top of the lid whilst secretly holding a standard ma****ic penny underneath it, the CU penny holds the real penny secretly in place. Screw on the lid onto the jar, then carefully put the CU £ on the CU penny. Tell the spec to watch carefully as you cover the top of the jar with your palm. Once your happy that the CU is connected under your palm, give the jar a shake. The real penny will rattle around inside the jar, then lift your palm showing just the pound. The spec will believe the penny has magically penetrated the lid.
2. Next secretly reset your CU (easily done with the reactive real penny), then say 'to prove I'm not making any sleights or funny business - the magic will happen in a sealed jar" - put the two sections of the coin unique in the small jar (you can hide the real penny at this stage as you are finished with it). attach the lid and do the glass swirl move to join the two parts. The Spec will see that you have disappeared the penny from within the sealed jar!!
3. This is a great finale - due to the jar lid being metal you can take the routine further. Once you have completed part 2 you can then disappear the £1 simply by giving the jar a shake making sure the jar tips upside-down in the process. The CU will magnetically stick to the underside of the lid, and you can show an empty jar (just dont hold it up too high that the spec can see the underside of the lid).
If you're confident enough you can take the lid off - pass the glass jar to the Spec for examination and quickly remove the CU from under the lid before passing that over too, leaving yourself absolutely clean...

I'm pleased as punch with this routine - it blows people away!

nice stuff

Rather than vanish the penny in the second phase you could pull it from the jar. You already have the dupe penny palmed.

You could maybe ask the spec to name a coin, the 1p or pound.

1p = you pull the penny from jar and hand it to them
£1 = you pull penny from the jar and hand them the jar, saying here you go

oh, then actually, you *could* pull the £ from the jar...

so at the end of stage 2 the jar has the CU and the dupe penny is in your hand. saying 'we don't need this anymore' you ditch the penny in your pocket, at the same time retreiving a dupe £1.

You then vanish the CU as per your move in phase three, but pull it from the jar (obv, pulling the dupe)

you then hand them the coin to examine, as it's the dupe, and as they are doing that, unscrew the jar, cop the CU and hand the jar and lid out.

Not saying your routine is bad or anything, just this is what I thought of.

thanks Stewie

I struggling to make sense of your suggestions - guess I'll have to re-read it a few times!!!
I should point out that the penny in the jar in phase one is a real penny not the CU penny. I guess you could do a variation with the CU penny inside the jar (as it sticks to the lid) but you'd risk the £ side of the penny being revealed when it appears (ie it falls upside down or spec hold jar and looks from underneath).
after the first phase I do then take the real penny out of the jar for the next phase and secretly switch it for the CU penny. As you've done the lid penetration phase, its now a penny disappearance phase, which is a basic CU swirl manoeuvre, done in a sealed jar.

I've come up with a good back story/patter for this routine which I wont divulge just yet as I need to road test it.

However an additional step can be made at the beginning by making the dupe ('steel') penny 'appear' in the sealed jar using a PK ring to hold it secretly under the lid until your ready to make it appear. (just by loosening your grip or swapping hands).
Its basically the reverse of the last step that makes the CU disappear, except you don't need a magnet for the CU as it can stick to the underside of the lid on its own.
p.s when I say 'steel' penny what I mean is a standard penny that reacts to magnets (I didn't want to use the term 'magnetic' in case anyone thought it was a magnetised [penny)

Thanks for Positive feedback folks - means a lots as a newbie to magic.

by pull from jar, I mean 'pretend to extract through the glass' - so the spec sees two coins in jar, close jar, as him to name one, and that one penetrates the glass to end up in your hand with one coin in the jam jar.

kind of like expansion of texture, but with a jam jar

never mind, it was probably a bad idea

you carry on as you were!

The number of times I've seen people post that they have accidentally spent their coins makes me wander how many of these are actually in circulation!

I haven't bought one (YET) so don't know how it works, but if someone unknowingly had one that had been accidentally spent, would it behave in strange ways or would it behave like normal money?

Coz if it misbehaved itself for someone who didn't know the trick existed then that could be really mind blowing!