Miserable Money

Effect: When you shout at a coin, it gets so upset it bursts into tears!

Secret: Secretly conceal a wad of wet tissue paper between the first and second fingers of your right hand. Borrow a coin and place it directly on top of the tissue. Be careful that you do not allow anyone to see the tissue as you do this. Now squeeze the coin and the tissue together. Water drips from the tissue and it appears that the coin is crying.

Coin In The Glass

Effect: A coin disappears.

Secret: Put a coin in the centre of a handkerchief draped over your right hand. Place a glass tumbler on the palm of your left hand. Turn your right hand over, retaining a grip on the coin and bring the handkerchief over the glass. When the glass is covered tilt it towards you. Drop the coin. It hits the glass (convincing everyone it has gone into the glasses) and drops onto your hand. Place the glass (still covered) on your table and casually drop the coin in your pocket.Remove the handkerchief – the coin has vanished.

Spin Vanish

Effect: A matchbox is banged on a spinning coin to stop it. When the matchbox is lifted the coin has vanished.

Secret: Spin a small coin on the table top. Hold the matchbox, which must be empty, so that the drawer is open side down. Bang the matchbox sharply on top of the coin. Ask a spectator if he thinks the head or tails side of the coin is uppermost. Lift the box and the coin has disappeared. Because you banged the matchbox down so hard the coin penetrated the cover and is now inside the box.

The Travelling Coin

Effect: A coin travels from one hand to the other.

Secret: Place a coin on the palm of your left hand and another on the fingers of your right hand as shown. Turn over hands quickly and simultaneously. Lift the right hand and the coin has vanished. Lift the left hand to reveal there are two coins beneath it. Due to the positioning of the coins, this trick works automatically. Even so, you should still practise it in private before showing it to anyone. If you are left handed, you may find that the trick works better if the positions of the coins are reversed.

Soapy Secret

Effect: A coin is shown on the palm of the left hand. A moment later the coin has vanished.

Secret: This trick only works with a small coin. The coin is shown on the palm of your left hand which is then closed into a fist. You then press the nail of your second finger against the coin, for on that nail is a small piece of soap. When you open your hand it seems that the coin has disappeared – but it is really stuck to the back of the second finger with the soap.

Multiplying Money

Effect: Three coins increase to six in your hand.

Secret: Show three coins and count them out on to a magazine. Unbeknown to your audience there are three more coins hidden inside the magazine cover. Fold the magazine slightly and tip the three visible coins into your hand. At the same time the three hidden coins will slip from the magazine into your hand too but the audience do not know about this.Wave your other hand over the one holding the coins. Slowly open your hand to show that the coins have mysteriously multiplied. - MAGIC

Disappearing Coin

Effect: A coin disappears from your hand in spite of the fact that several people check it is there.

Secret: Show the coin on the palm of your hand and cover it with a handkerchief. Go to several people and ask them to feel the coin under the handkerchief. The last person you approach is (unbeknown to the rest of the audience) your secret assistant. He pretends to feel the coin but actually takes it off your palm. You can now pull the handkerchief away with a flourish and your hands are shown completely empty. The coin has disappeared.

That's Torn It!

Effect: A coin is wrapped in paper. You then tear up the paper – the coin has disappeared!

Secret: Place the coin on the paper, just above the centre. Fold the top portion of paper down over the coin. Fold the right side of the paper around to the back. Do the same with the left side.
Lastly, fold the bottom portion back. This procedure leaves the bottom edge of the packet open. Hold the paper in your hand and allow the coin to slip secretly into your hand. Tear up the paper and the coin seems to have vanished.

Homing Coins

Effect: Four coins disappear then magically return.

Secret: On two sides of a triangular stand is a ledge to hold four coins. Those on one side are loose, the others are glued in place. The stand is on your table with the loose coins on show. Pretend to take the first coin away but really let it fall behind the stand. Put the imaginary coin in a paper bag. Do the same with the other coins. As you cover the stand with a scarf, tip the stand backwards. Blow up the bag and burst it. Whisk the scarf away and the coins have returned.

Money Making Matchbox

Effect: Two coins are placed in a matchbox and the box is closed. When the box is opened again the number of coins in it has increased to three.

Secret: Open the matchbox and hide a coin between the top of the drawer and the cover of the box as shown. Place two coins in the box and push the drawer shut. This forces the hidden coin to drop into the drawer. Make a few mystical passes over the box and then open it. Say: "That's the way a magician makes money!".

Making Money

Effect: Three coins are placed in your hand. When you open your hand again the number of coins has increased to five.

Secret: Before your performance secretly stick two coins to the underside of your table with Plasticine. Place three coins on the table. Let everyone see that your hands are empty. With your right hand, scoop the coins from the table into your left hand. At the same time, the left fingers reach under the table and take the two hidden coins. Open your left hand and the coins have magically multiplied.

An Expensive Roll

Effect: A bread roll is broken open and a coin is found inside.

Secret: Hold a coin on the fingers of your right hand. The audience must not know this, so keep it hidden. When you are at the dinner table take a bread roll and place it directly on top of the concealed coin. Bend the roll downwards between your hands. This causes an opening in the bottom of the roll. Force the coin into this opening.Now break the roll from the top. As the roll breaks, the coin appears from the middle of the roll.

Find The Coin

Effect: A coin is covered with any one of three cups and the cups are then moved around. You can say immediately which cup is covering the coin.

Secret: Attached to the coin is a long hair. When the coin has been covered the three cups can be moved around as much as anyone wants. Although your back has been turned while this has been going on you can easily locate which cup hides the coin. All you have to do is look for the hair sticking out from beneath one of the cups and that tells you all you need to know!