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Effect

The Topsy Turvy Coins

J. B. Bobo · Modern Coin Magic, 1952

Time
3 min read + 10 min practice
Materials
In the library
Prerequisites
None

Effect

Five borrowed half dollars are placed in an overlapping row on the performer's left hand so they alternate heads up, tails up, etc. The wonder-worker pushes the coins together and holds them in a stack between the fingers and thumb of his right hand. He then releases them one at a time, allowing them to fall onto the left hand. As the coins fall they are seen to be all one way, i.e., all heads up. Somehow they have mysteriously rearranged themselves.

How it is done

The method, 2 drawings and all it needs, inside the library.

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