Tricks with Coins

The King of Koins gives away the act: every sleight and subtlety he knew, including the full working of “The Miser's Dream” as he performed it at the Palace Theatre for nearly 200 straight nights.

About the Book

1902Published
T. Nelson Downs (ed. William J. Hilliar)Author
58Tricks
60Pages on this site

T. Nelson Downs was the most famous coin manipulator of his age — billed as the King of Koins — and this book, edited by William J. Hilliar, sets out “every sleight and subtlety invented and known” to him, with 86 illustrations.

Its centerpiece is a complete explanation of The Miser's Dream, the coin production that carried him through nearly two hundred consecutive performances at the Palace Theatre in London.

This digital edition is built from a dual-engine OCR, reconciled page by page, with the original illustrations of the hand positions.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1902 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

Rights & ReuseThe complete text of Tricks with Coins (1902) is in the public domain in the United States — like all works published before 1928 — and is free to read, download, quote, teach from, and reuse. This digital edition (its transcription, restored images, and site design) is © 2026 PhotoOpAI, and any editorial commentary we add is clearly marked as ours; the underlying public-domain text carries no such restriction.