Tricks With A Folding Coin Book

This is the revised edition of the old favorite. Almost every magician has a folding coin somewhere in their magic drawer so make then most of it. This booklet contains over 30 tricks with material contributed from U.F. Gen. Grant, Don Alan ,Frank Garcia, Frank Lane, Matt Schulien and others.

Contents: 

• About the Coin: Explanation of the folding coin and how to put it together

Frank Garcia Section

• The Famous Coin In the Bottle: Uses a borrowed half dollar (not likely to be found today!) and all can be examined at the end
• Effect #2: Coin produced from Flash Paper
• Effect #3 Iron in Your Blood: A bitten coin gag

Frank Lane and U.F. Grant Section

• A Great Pocket Trick: A block of wood is covered with a handkerchief and handed to the spectator. At the word "Go", the spectator drops the piece of wood, which changes into a half dollar, and the magician is now holding the block of wood.
• Thru The Card: A half dollar is pushed through a small hole in a card in to a glass
• Half Dollar in the Wand: requires a "coin wand" or "handkerchief wand"
• Thru The Hand: a half slowly & visibly penetrates your hand
• Wrapped In a Dollar: Coin appears from a rolled up, borrowed, dollar bill
• Production: Hands shown empty in a Cigar: go to a cigar shop that makes cigars...
• Silk Threads: a spool of thread is unwound during patter of silk used in making dollars, and the thread changes into a half dollar 
• The Handkerchief Pedestal and Coin: a platform trick for the Handkerchief Pedestal
• Thru the Hat: coin penetrates through a borrowed hat
•  Fake Back Palming: with a folding coin
• Thru the Cloth: coin penetrates a cloth held in an embroidery frame
• Coin Trick With A Top Hat: slow penetration through a hat
• In the Handkerchief: vanishes in a (Devil's) handkerchief
• The Wand Shell: folded half in a wand shell
•  Half a Dollar: how to change a dollar into two halves - out pops a half dollar coin, and then the bill is shown to be in half
• Thru The Knee: thru the knee of your pants
• Ball of Wool: can be squeezed and they won't feel a coin
• Before We Go Any Further: description of a simple end switch to end with a real half dollar
• The Lipstick: coin from lipstick tube
• With Two Nickels: Two nickels in the hand change instantly into 60 cents
• The Penetration Effect: coin is wrapped in a newspaper and a knife blade is thrust through the coin
• The Funny Half Dollar: the half dollar coin "bends"
• In a Thumb Tip: coin materializes from a piece of paper
• Saving Money by Quitting Smoking: from a broken cigarette
• Bending Gag: coin bends easily through paper
•  Making Change for a Dollar: another version of the "two" halves of a dollar
• The Folding Half Dollar Card Trick: half dollar hops out of the deck at the selected card
• Don Alan's Half Dollar In the Bottle: a cute routine using a folding half dollar & matching real half, an Anti-Gravico gimmick, a crochet hook, and tiny figure made from a wooden match.
• Here's How Matt Schulien Did It: Matt's approach to the coin in the bottle

Details:  Tricks With A Folding Coin

30 pages, soft covers, saddle-stitched, size: 5 1/2" by 8 1/2".

Gimmicked Coin sold separately elsewhere on this website.

Skill level: Beginner. Suitable for ages 10 to adult.