A Comedy Coin Routine

Dave Coleman

Every top flight magician I know uses comedy in same degree in his show. Even though you may be a serious type performer a laugh now and then helps make your show more enjoyable. In this world of today we need to forget our troubles-we need a few laughs. This trick is designed with that in mind.

The trick is fine for presentation before almost any group, providing there are a few children present.

Effect

The performer asks for two boys to assist him in a trick. One boy stands on his left, the other on his right. He then shows some coins, which he has the boy on the left count onto a tray. There are six. The count is confirmed by the boy on the right, then the coins are placed in the hands of the boy on the left for safekeeping.

With the aid of a magic wand, which the performer says is magnetized, he produces four coins from different parts of the body of the boy on the right. Each coin is produced on the tip of his wand, then tossed toward the boy on the left, who is then sup posed to hold ten coins. But when he counts them onto the tray there are only nine. The tenth is found in the boy's pocket.