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It really depends on what you want to do after. Most people go to classic palm, but too soon, and the spectators see their hand "tighten" as they lift the coin from fingertip rest to classic palm (obviously, ruining the illusion). The best coin magic is magic with no apparent transfers of...

Ortiz is your guy for the faro work. He has a great way to get into a well known stack that uses two back-to-back faros, from an unopened deck of cards. Brilliant stuff, and almost impossible to think up. The great thing about the faro is that once you can do it consistently, you can...

Sounds like a good routine, Jonny. Scott.

You want to get the World's Greatest Magic DVD on Expanded Shells. It's on my shelf here at home; I do three of the routines on the DVD all of the time, and I enjoy the rest as well. Mark Leveridge's SLO MO routine is wicked, as is Garret Thomas' Imagination Coins. After that, move on to...

It is a good one, for sure. I've done it (with a large chinese coin I found in a bead store), and it works well. You really have to let the spectators inspect the coin before you do it, though. There's so much apparent cover from your fingers that you don't want it to look like you're hiding...

Are you presenting the vanish as an effect itself? Because that's not good. How long are you giving between the apparent placement, and the moment of the vanish? The longer, the better... but not TOO long. You don't want them to forget there's a coin there, but you don't want it to look...

It is NOT a matrix effect. Matrix is a trick (by Al Schneider) whereby the coins are apparently unable to be touched by the magician because there are four cards on top... and yet they gather one at a time beneath one of the cards. Not all coin assemblies are matrix effects. 'Specially not...

"Of course, i'm usually surrounded when i do this (that's just how good i am)" I've heard the greatest busker alive today (you know who) say the line "If you don't want to see how it's done, stand over here [he points]. If you want to see how it's done, then stand behind me- with your heads...

Definitely been done before, but hey... maybe not the way YOU'RE thinking about it. YOU haven't done it before, so maybe it HASN'T been done before... get what I'm saying? :) Scott.

No, it's performance only. Aside from some old pdfs that are no longer available, Mickey has not released anything to the magic community as far as Instruction goes. His retention vanish is the BEST. No argument. You have to see it. BEST. EVER. And the routine is called "Human Slot...

For the acquitment, I would do it before a production. And hey- Bertini teaches a pinky display acquitment on the DVD. That's the one I use (modified a bit with one I learned from Apocalypse Magazine). The display itself is nifty, but I rarely use it. It really has to fit into the...

Funny. I actually like card magic. Just not the card "magic" I see around here. Scott.

praetoritevong, In my honest opinion, you're an idiot. Don't you see that when I'm (in your words) "grossly simplifying" card magic, I'm doing EXACTLY what this thread is trying to do to coin magic? You guys are over simplifying coin magic by saying it can't possibly have an emotional...

A few thoughts, The emotional hook happens in the SPECTATORS MIND with coin magic. They see 4 coins gather invisibly from separate corners of the mat to the side, and they don't think "wow... they travelled invisibly". They think to themselves about how it's possible... and they can't...

Really? I've never been a fan of "excuse me, while I go out of frame for a noticeably long time before a large production" magic. Scott.

I meant never "master" as in never "perfect". With practice, you can get it to a performable level. Scott.

Bottom line: Steerpike and Randy are correct in what they're saying. It's a move that you will probably NEVER master, especially if you follow everything Jay Nose-bleed-aza says in his lame dvd. Scott.

"Look... if I take this coin, and hold it three inches below my belt, it... DISAPPEARS!" :P Looks dumb. Scott.

...echo? Anyways, I forgot to mention Kainoa Harbottle and Curtis Kam. They're both pretty good, with a lot of material available that is "above average" in difficulty. Scott.

Could be any number of methods that I can think of. You can buy coin bends from any magic vendor. Scott.