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.

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William J. Hilliar

INCLUDING A complete explanation of his World- Famous Coin Creation, "The Miser's Dream," as presented by him at the Palace Theatre…

Chicago, Ill., U. S. A

CONTENTS Dream, The Miser's.. 9 Production of Any Number of Coins at the Finger Tips... 32 To Pass a Coin Through the Knees. 35 The…

The Miser's Dream

The above original conception of the author's has, he believes, been more extensively imitated and counterfeited than any other known…

At Finger Tips

Before the hat is replaced on the table the audience is asked to name any number, which we will suppose is 15. The performer, who has in…

To Pass a Coin Through the Knees

To bring about the above effect a half-dollar is palmed in the right hand, and another taken between the second and third finger tips (the…

The Elusive Pass

The performer takes, we will say, six coins between the foremost sections of the middle and third fingers of the right hand, spreading out…

New Change-Over Palm

When the left hand is opened, the right hand, which contains the coins palmed, is brought face to face with the left one, and the coins…

Ing Coins at the Same Time

Fig. 33 represents a photo of the author's hand palming coins in three different styles: ordinary, thumb and finger-palm. It is, of course…

Forty Coins

The above trick of the author's is in all seriousness described in a certain "Serio-Comic" Coin-Trick book as being "simple enough" if you…

Coin Vanishes and Passes

The following methods, which are numbered, are for causing the disappearance of one coin only:- No. 1.

A Rapid Pass with Six Coins

Hold six half-dollars by their edges between the two middle fingers and thumb tips. Move the hand towards the left, at the same time al…

Disappearing Pile of Coins

A number of coins are shown lying on a plate, piled up, taken in the left hand where they are seen, and the hand is closed over them. A…

The Equilibrium of Silver

The following trick was invented by the author as an improvement on an older trick of his in which three borrowed coins were balanced each…

Hand to the Other

In this trick the performer borrows, say, 20 half-dollars and holds them spread out in a fan in the left hand (palm towards audience). The…

Quadruple Coin

A borrowed coin is placed on an ordinary plate and immediately is increased to four.

The Transmutation of Metals

A pile of gold and a pile of silver coins are each wrapped in a piece of paper and placed on separate plates, each then being covered with…

Vanishing Coins from Goblet

Three or four coins are borrowed and dropped into a goblet, which is then covered with a borrowed handkerchief. On removing the…

Multiplying Coins

(SLEIGHT-OF-HAND METHOD.) Performer borrows a half-dollar, which by rubbing slightly he causes to increase to two, three, four and then…

New Coin Production from Bare

Performer turns up his sleeves and shows both hands perfectly empty back and front, fingers wide apart (no coin holders, spiders, or false…

The Money-Producing Cigarette

While performing the Aerial Treasury the performer fancies a cigarette, so proceeds to take an amber tube out of case, insert a borrowed…

Trcks with Coins

beauty of the feat being that his hands do not come near to the cigarette or holder during the whole time. This effect can be repeated as…

The Coin of Phoenix

A borrowed coin, the date of which is noted, disappears and reappears between the hands. It is then caused to adhere to the finger tip or…

In God We

A Fig. 47. reappears from the ashes and is returned to the owner. The borrowed coin is changed for a substitute and the latter handed to a…

New Money-Producing Card

Performer has a card selected from the pack, which he holds between the fingers of right hand, when suddenly a real half-dollar appears on…

The Marvelous Transit of Coins

Two glasses are passed on a tray for examination. The audience is requested to place a few coins in one of the glasses. Two hats and two…

Novel Appearing Coin

Performer shows his hands empty and even allows them to be examined, yet upon rubbing them together a coin appears between them. This…

The New Crystal Target

In the following explanation of the above trick the author begs to bring before his readers what he considers to be a decided improvement…

The Flying Coins

Six half-dollars are deposited in a small box by the spectators and the box placed in full view on the table. Performer shows his hands…

The Mysterious Claret Glass

The author here presents to his reader an entirely new, original and novel "Money Catching" trick, the beauty of the feat being in the…

Magnetized Coins

Performer lays a number of coins on his arm so that they overlap each other. He now makes a few magnetic passes over them, when instantly…

The Demon Goblet

Performer shows a crystal goblet empty and has it examined, yet a number of coins appear in it one at a time.

The Silver Question

Performer, after showing both hands empty, calls upon his banker to supply him with funds, when instantly a pile of 30 coins appears in his…

Handkerchief as Money Producer

Performer borrows a handkerchief, rolls up his sleeves, shows his hands empty both sides and strokes the handkerchief, when instantly a…

New Money-Producing Candle

Performer, after showing his hands empty from both sides, abstracts a number of coins from a previously examined candle for inspection.

The Dematerialization of Thirty

The following experiment the author considers to be one of the prettiest in the whole range of coin conjuring. The effect is as follows…

Coin Passing Through a Table, Etc

A coin is borrowed and the hands are shown perfectly empty otherwise. The coin now flies from one hand to the other, through a table, etc.

Modfrn Coin Manipulation

thumb. The left hand now contains the substitute, and the right one the borrowed coin. You can now pass the coin from hand to hand, etc.

The Crystal Coin Ladder

The trick now about to be described and known among magicians by the above title was, the author believes, invented by the celebrated…

The Traveling Coin

For the purpose of the above trick it is necessary to obtain a very thin imitation half-dollar, through the center of which a tiny hole is…

The Sixteen to One Silver Trick

In this trick the author explains his original method of producing sixteen coins, one at a time, from a borrowed one, the hands first of…

The Fusible Coins

The performer takes one or more coins between his fingers, when they melt and the molten metal flows out of his hands. When it has again…

Mechanical Devices for Perfom

In this chapter it is proposed to describe all the latest devices invented to imitate the author's methods of palming with coins. First of…

Chapter II

Fig. 74 shows the appearance of the holder which is constructed on the principle of the well-known sovereign purse, the top being attached…

The Coin of Mercury

To perform this trick you require two tumblers, whose inside diameter at the bottom is the same as the coin to be used, a jug of water, a…

The Coin Cornucopia

The performer calls attention to a piece of newspaper, and makes a cornucopia of it, and places it in a glass that is on a common dinner…

The Obedient Coins

After the performance of "The Miser's Dream," the following diversion is excellent:

The Coin and Paper Tube

The performer takes a small piece of paper, making a round tube of it, which he secures in the middle of the stage by a ribbon fastened to…

An Old Trick Improved

Our readers will probably recall the following very puzzling trick, which made its appearance a few years ago. A sheet of brown paper was…

A Good Coin Trick

The performer borrows a half-dollar, and taking it in the hand and bending the left arm, pretends to rub the coin into the left elbow. The…

To Tell Date on Borrowed Coin

This is one of the very best parlor tricks in existence. Performer, whilst blindfolded, desires spectator to hand him a half-dollar, which…

Five Coins

This is a most excellent pass, and, the author feels sure, will be appreciated. Twenty-five coins are placed in the left hand, and the…

The Winged Coin

The effect of this splendid piece of magic is as if you had passed a marked half-dollar from a distance into an uncorked bottle, whose neck…

Tricks with Cards

2 pages

New Coins and Die

This is an improvement on a trick that is as old as our grandfathers, and explained in the first books of magic. No doubt our readers are…

Koincluding Observations

3 pages

The End

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