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As someone fairly new to this forum I have been browsing through the reviews. If I didn't already suffer from CUPS I now have it in its advanced form.

One trick that I would like to find is Dissolving Coins. I have searched several sites but cannot find it. Is it no longer available?

It is possible that this trick is still available but under another name.

Could you give us a brief description of the effect.
Hopefully it may ring a bell with someone who may be able to direct you in the right direction.

It is listed in the reviews.

A coin is put under a cloth over a glass of water, the spec is asked to hold the coin then drop it, you hear it go in to the glass but it disappears

PM'd you

Could you PM me too - sounds an interesting trick

Could you PM me too - sounds an interesting trick

Consider it done

You too Juan

Does nobody else remember getting this effect in old cheapo magic sets ?

Does nobody else remember getting this effect in old cheapo magic sets

Very much so, I still have the 'aardvark' somewhere which was produced when we used the old shilling and original 5p coins! Ah, memories!!

its all become clear to me now! I remember now,

Mandrake wrote:Very much so, I still have the 'aardvark' somewhere which was produced when we used the old shilling and original 5p coins! Ah, memories!!

So you'll remember 15 February 1971 when we went decimal, eh? I've NO idea why this date has stuck in my memory, but it has!

Remembered with absolute clarity! That was the year my ever loving and I were married and in January 1971 we paid the initial deposits etc in old money but the balance, due in September, would need to be in decimal. The Vicar, who was very close to retirement, took ages to convert the amount due (no pocket calculators in those days!) and ended up only charging us half the amount. Naturally we double checked and paid the right money in the end but it was a fun time. All new prices, all new shiny currency and it included the old and long defunct 1/2p coin so we were actually based on 200 coins to the pound. Many prices were scandalously raised in the hope that folks wouldn't notice or wouldn't object.

At the time, I used to work with a lady of senior years who had very little formal education but she loved to gamble on the horses, not great amounts, but very complicated accumulators and other strange betting processes. She could mentally work out her winnings based on 5 horses coming in at different odds in successive races in seconds - but only in old money. She would have been a whiz as a mathematical mentalist. Ah, the good old days!

Mandrake wrote:Remembered with absolute clarity! That was the year my ever loving and I were married and in January 1971...

Hate to make you feel old, but that was the year I was born (Dec 1971)



Rob

that was the year I was born

Gee, thanks - that's really made my day!

mmmmm?surely sounds like it should be in bobo's tabloid,no?