The Coin in the Magical Envelopes

This experiment is really a Coin Classic. When skillfully done, its effect is wonderful.

Performer requests that a spectator mark a half dollar and loan it to him. He wraps this coin in a piece of newspaper and gives it to spectator who is assisting him to hold. He then waves a piece of sealing wax over the parcel. Spectator opens newspaper and finds that it has been converted into a large newspaper envelope sealed with wax. Upon opening the envelope, he finds that another sealed envelope is enclosed in the first. The second envelope is opened and it contains a third sealed envelope. The third is opened and is found to contain the half dollar.

Magician then offers to show assistant how to do the trick. He repeats it and this time the envelopes are opened and the loaner of the coin finds his marked coin in the third envelope.

Performer then suggests that assistant might like to keep the six envelopes as a souvenir. He gives the assistant the envelope crushed into a ball. A mishap occurs however. Magician accidentally touches the assistant's hand with the sealing wax and this causes the envelopes to change back again into the two pieces of newspaper which they were originally.