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The Pound Store ones I mentioned are like small champagne buckets, the sort of thing you get on a stand next to a restaurant table. Not in McDonalds, obviously, but proper restaurants!

A bit like the image below but without the rings through the knob handles.

... and you can make a Heath-Robinson wrist worn coin loader out of a squashed-flat empty clingfilm tube

Kidsshowmagic have just offered the Chris Capecart dvd at £18:57p.
Russell Hall of Magick Enterprises, Broad St., Sheffield puts out a DVD magazine called PRESDIGITAL, what else? No. 3 is now released but on No. 1, John Lennahan performs and then teaches his Street Style Version of The Dream from his first UK lecture in 1985.
Allen Tipton

I just use a jack daniels fudge tin that I got given for Xmas. You get a nice aroma of Whisky while performing Probably not as good as an Ice bucket but easier to carry around

I agree with all the wise old birds gen written above. I still use MD for some children's shows. I use one of those empty LARGE coffee tins. Just one very simple sleight but it's not what you do it's the way you do it that counts. The fun routine is what matters. Lots of noise with the coins in the tin!

What I dooooo use are lots of the very old silver (chrome) palming coins. These are very thin, greatly aiding all you do. Being larger that most of our coins apart from the 50p.

As in this forum it's not allowed to explain, I refer you to Pat Pages book although several years ago I did print my version in my children's lecture at the time. Remember the old advice KISS. Yoy know what that means I'm sure!
Mark

I forgot to mention I use gold tokens as in slot machines. And no I don't play the slots, not since i was a kid! The 48 tokens were a free gift when I purchased the Burtini Coin Pail. They make a great noise when they hit the pail. I've also used, but not with pail as they are palming coin size, the very think, serrated edged, for gripping easily, stainless steel discs from Camtryx Magic.
As a FINALE after a stream, of coins I pull out a 'streamer' of five pound notes. Sometimes from the pail, sometimes from the air; they are weighted at the end of the 'streamer so it falls open rapidly. " Look it's raining money"
In the 'old days' it was pulled from beneath the assisting boy's jumper or jacket but that's been out for several years for obvious reasons.
The streamer was originally kid's 'play' money gummed end to end, later replaced, for adults,with feke fivers. never discovered why I didn't use tenners. Perhaps I was a cheap Act !!!
I had considered at one time using one of those huge Instant Coffee tins, particularly the catering size. Stripped of the label they always looked like a bright shining prop.
And talking of the 'old birds', Mark W, I wish you could have seen the great Sheik Ben Ali performing his MD with a large biscuit tin on Blackpool's Golden Mile. This when I was a young lad in the 1940's! "Nobody inside. Nobody outside".
He was born, Mohari Ali, an Indian Moslem in Calcutta on 26th. August 1906. Died March 1978. Performed all over the Uk. Eddie Burke puts out a m's called Easy Miser's Dream, using a tin mug/cup with handle and one of Sheik Ben Ali's moves.
Allen Tipton

I wanted to perform misers dream in my kids shows but felt that I needed a reason to produce the money. ( I know I always want a hook to hang routines on) So my solution was this.

Once the kids were seated. I asked if they had paid yet....(curious looks from the kids) "Well I can't start the magic till I get paid so get out your money. (slightly nervous looks from the kids....Adults amused!) "OK I'll just have to get it myself". I then grab my bucket and start to pluck coins from ears, elbows noses etc. Once I feel this has gone on long enough I tell them "OK that should do for now lets get on with the show".

I don't do kids shows anymore, but I passed this routine on to many who still use it to great effect.

Allen Tipton wrote::) Kidsshowmagic have just offered the Chris Capecart dvd at £18:57p.

Have just spent a thoroughly entertaining evening watching Chris perform this, along with a nice floating table effect. His Miser's Dream is very entertaining, and based on his performance, and the fact that he's a very nice bloke, I would certainly recommend the DVD (although I haven't seen it, just basing it on his routine and performance)

There are other ways to do misers u could use a hat or something but a metal bucket is your best bet.
If uve lost bobos buy it again foo!
That book is a god-send to all who wish to dabble in coins (at least I thinks so)

I reviewed the Chris Capehart DVD and thoroughly recommend it - look in the review section to find it if you're interested in Misers Dream.

also, there's a routine in either Mark Wilson's Complete Course, or Peter Eldin's Pocket Book of Magic, can't remember which, but I'm sure it's in one of them...