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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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 Downs Fig. 56.

Fig. 57. they become firmly attached to each other and may be lifted as if made of a solid metal bar. A few more passes and the coins become as movable as before. This trick can be used in connection with any coin feat where a quantity of coins are used, and will be found extremely useful in various ways. Figs. Nos. 56 and 57 will explain the secret. A "T" shaped flange soldered on the tops of the coins just slides into a similar shaped groove in the bottoms of the coins.

Fig. 55.
Fig. 55.
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