subject: Learn Perform Coin Magic [print this page] Tricks with coins date back almost to the beginning of magic, and they are as popular as ever today. Coins are always handy if you want to borrow some for impromptu work. If you carry a supply of your own, you will be equipped for feats of really surprising wizardry.
Some good coin tricks are quite simple, others require a great deal of practice while of the best depend on basic moves that are quite easy to learn. Your knowledge of sleights will enable you to build up highly effective coin routines without going into more difficult manipulations which have created the impression that coin work is for experts only. Even some coin flourishes come easily with reasonable practice.
By putting coin effects into your general programs, you can learn as you go, expanding your coin routines until they become all-inclusive. Even before then, you should become sufficiently money minded to go in for tricks with folding currency. The same rule applies both to coins and bills: When performing either type of money magic, stress the fact that you use ordinary means- in some cases, borrowing them, thus proving that skill, not trickery, is the great factor in your work. The more you have them believing that, the more wonderful your money magic will appear.
