Coins in the Teeth

Equally as mystifying as the preceding trick, but much more showy, is this trick with two coins.

Effect

The performer shows a coin in each hand. The left hand's coin is placed between the teeth. The right hand's coin is tossed into the left, then the coin between the teeth is dropped into the right hand.

This is repeated.

For the third time he shows a coin in each hand and places the coin held by the left hand between his teeth. The right hand's coin is placed in the left hand which closes over it. Taking the coin from between his teeth he places it in the left hand also, it being heard to fall onto the other one already there, audible proof that both coins are actually in the left hand. Yet a moment later the magician opens his left hand and shows it empty. The missing coins are produced by the right hand from behind the knee.