Handling oversized coins

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Handling oversized coins

Postby The4thCircle » Oct 19th, '11, 07:40



While bantering the other day with a fellow magician I had a silly idea about doing a routine using foil wrapped chocolate coins for the kids at Christmas, ending with the production of a giant chocolate medallion. Afterwards it occurred to me that although I've seen it done I ave no idea how to handle the kind of 4 or 5 inch oversized coins used for production effects.

Are there any good sources to learn giant coin production from?

-Stacy

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Re: Handling oversized coins

Postby spooneythegoon » Oct 21st, '11, 17:19

I would have thought that they were treated in the same way as jumbo final loads for the cups and balls (just misdirection). But I don't actually know. So why did I post? I dont know. Hope you get some more helpful andwers than this one! :lol:

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Re: Handling oversized coins

Postby magicdiscoman » Oct 21st, '11, 20:06

http://www.alakazam.co.uk/product-Secret-Art-Of-Coin-Manipulation-With-Jumbo-Coins-by-Eric-Evans---DVD.html this may be of help, most people use a tenkie or you might try the old dodge of a coin up the sleave on a bit of it, remember having cloves as a kid on string. :wink: :wink:

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Re: Handling oversized coins

Postby The4thCircle » Aug 19th, '12, 10:00

Hi gang.

So I'm going through my old posts to add an information cap, by which I mean I don't want it to look like I just asked a bunch of questions that went nowhere. I didn't buy the Eric Evans DVD, although I may in the future, I just wanted a simple production and I found one on a DVD from International Magic of an old David Roth Lecture. He does a coin flurry routine that ends with the little coin becoming a jumbo coin using pretty much pure misdirection. Ideal for my routine, so I stuck with it.

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Re: Handling oversized coins

Postby Mr Grumpy » Sep 5th, '12, 20:01

I can make chocolate coins disappear.

And the more jumbo the better.

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Re: Handling oversized coins

Postby magicofthemind » Sep 6th, '12, 09:33

There's a clever way to produce a giant coin, small plate or similar object in the Pat Page book.

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