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A Coin Trick Was My First Trick That Looked Like Real Magic

By MagicKen on September 28, 2017 0

Coin magic is the kind of magic that I like best. And a coin trick is the first bit of magic that I showed to non-family members and looked like “real” magic.

Picture of New Modern Coin Magic book
New Modern Coin Magic

That coin trick is called Tenkai Pennies. It’s been around since around the middle of the 20th century.

It’s a super clean trick that uses two coins. Ironically, hardly anyone does it with actual pennies, since those are such small coins. Usually people use half-dollars or even dollar-sized coins.

You can learn it in Bobo’s “New Modern Coin Magic” – which is the large hardback Bobo coin magic book, not the smaller paperback “Modern Coin Magic.”

What So Special About This Coin Trick?

I mentioned that the trick is super clean. What I meant was that Tenkai Pennies uses no gaffs or gimmicks. Nor does it rely on extra coins. What you see is what you get – one coin moves mysteriously from one hand to the other as if by magic.

It’s pure sleight of hand. And that is what makes it so special. You can do this trick with any coins. So that means you can borrow coins from someone and do magic with their own money!

The other special thing about this trick is that it relies on a sleight (“the use of dexterity or cunning, especially so as to deceive”) that is relatively difficult. That means that a lot of magicians will not bother learning it.

I would rather not – in this open post – specifically say what that sleight is*. Magic should retain some mystery, right? But what I will say that it has been SO worth it to learn this little move. And since many magicians don’t bother with it, you’ll be that much more ahead of the other magicians if you put in the time and effort.

Here is a video of me doing this quick but awesome coin trick:

* Click Here to send me a message if you’d like to know what the sleight is :).

If you’d like to learn how to do this trick step-by-step, click here to find out more and download the videos (instant download) for $5

Me Doing Jay Sankey’s “The Messiah Vanish”

By MagicKen on August 10, 2017 0

I recently – finally – got my hands on Jay Sankey’s video, “Revolutionary Coin Magic.” Woot!

I learned a routine called Mr. Clean Coins Across from this video last year. Now I have access to all the routines! Buwahahahahaa!

Someone over at The Magicians forum requested that I do a quick video of me doing something I learned form this DVD, so I did a quick and dirty iPhone video of myself doing The Messiah Vanish. Here is the result of that.

As I mentioned, this trick can be found on Jay Sankey’s Revolutionary Coin Magic DVD, which is one of the best learning resources for coin magic ever, as far as I’m concerned. Granted, I’ve only been doing magic for a little over two and a half years at this point, but coin magic has been my main focus and I do have many of the recommended coin magic books and DVDs.

This DVD is harder to find than some of the newer ones, coming out as it did in the early 2000s – ca 2004 I think. But you can get it from Jay Sankey’s site here. Or try eBay, which is where I got my copy. Here is a link to it on eBay for one on sale right now.

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