Almost a Transposition

Stewart James and Milton Kort

Effect

The performer displays a penny in his left hand and a dime in his right. As he closes his hands on the two coins and holds them some distance apart, he announces that he will cause the coins to transpose themselves. Opening his hands a moment later he shows the transpositionthe penny is now in his right hand, but in his left hand he holds not the dime that was expected, but two nickels!