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This may or may not be new to people here but watching Sankey's Revolutionary Coin Magic today made me think about it. Sorry if this post is a bit jumbled and rambling but I'm mostly thinking on the fly here.

Say you approach a group of people and plan to do a short 4-5 trick coin routine, mostly consisting of tricks that use 1 or 2 coins. For your first trick though (since you've been practicing all weekend) you do a Blackstack Production, producing 8, maybe even 10 coins in an instant out of thin air. You then put away all but 1 or 2 of the coins and do your other tricks. Do you think that the effect of the 1 or 2 coin tricks would be softened because the audience knows (at least on some subconscious level) that you have as many as ten coins in your pockets?

Intuitively it seems to me like the audience knowing you have extra coins in your pockets would lessen the effect of the latter tricks. Maybe not all tricks, but definitely the kinds of tricks where you produce extra coins in various ways.

Conversely, structuring your routine in a way that you start off with a trick or two using only one coin, then move on to tricks that use 2, 3, then 4 coins would to me heighten the force of the latter tricks since the spectator still has that mental image of you starting off with just one coin.

That's something to chew on, I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

You certainly make a good point. I think that although Jay Sankey's dvd is great, the blackstack production although cool, it is not very practical in a walkaround situation (and some people might be a bit worried with the 'stance' you have to make). I totally agree that the amount of coins in your tricks should increase, and the best way to do that is of course to do a version of multiplying coins! Put yourself in the audience's position and think what they would be thinking...:

'Hey that was cool he made it disappear'
'Wow now there are more coins'
'Whoa now he's doing the tricks but with 6or8 coins!'

Hope this helps (best place to look is Modern Coin Magic - J.B. Bobo

Grant

Aye, the Blackstack looks cool but face it you're never gonna use it.

As for doing tricks with escalating amounts/types of coins there's definitely potential there, and a lot of routines already available. Don't worry about producing massive amounts of coins, even a one or two coin prduction can be very impressive if you pick the right one. Of course if you can produce a couple and keep one concealed while you're doing another trick then throw it into the mix later you're onto a sure fire winner...