This simple but effective routine combines a zany idea by my friend Stephen Tucker and a brilliant move by the late Rick Johnnssonn which was written in a PALLBEARERS REVIEW.
REQUIREMENTS: A deck with a duplicate (say the 9 of Diamonds); two English copper coins and a copper/silver coin.
SET-UP: Place a copper English coin in the middle of the card and fold the long side over and onto the coin with one end of the lengthwise end folded slightly more that the other. Fold the other long side over the coin the same way as in figure 1. Fold the wider end over the coin. Fold the other side towards the center but tuck this narrower side into the wider one, sealing the coin inside the card (figure 2). Place this "package" into the right pocket of the jacket. Place the other two coins in another pocket.
PERFORMANCE: From the deck, force the Nine of Diamonds to a spectator, then shuffle it into the deck towards the bottom. Try to produce the selected card but instead produce a couple of "wrong" cards. Then say; "Have I ever told you that I am really good with coin magic?" Leave the deck aside.
Remove the two coins and place them onto the left hand at the base of the fingers, copper coin onto the silver side of the gimmick.Close the left hand into a fist and turn it over (palm down). With the right fingers reach into the left fist and remove the upper coin (the gimmick) showing the copper side of the faked coin. Place the coin onto the left fist.
Place the right fingers flat onto the coin (figure 3). Keeping the right fingers pressing onto the coin, turn the left fist over ending up with the right hand palm up (figure 4). Move the hands apart showing the silver onto the right fingers and then open the left hand to show the copper coin.
Place the two coins in the left hand as before. Close the left hand into a fist and turn it palm down. The right hand fingers remove the gimmick showing it as the copper coin. Place the coin into the right side pocket. When inside the pocket, the right hand simply turns the coin over. Then, after a pause, open the left hand to show the copper coin there and remove the right hand to show the silver one.
The right hand enters the right pocket again (as to emphasize the transposition) leaves the coin and grips the package. Remove the right hand from the pocket and show the "coin" (ala Slydini).
Drop the coin/package into the left hand which closes while the right hand removes the copper coin from the left hand. Place the copper coin into the right pocket and leave it there, After a pause remove the fake showing the SILVER side. Immediately open the left hand and show the package. Surprise!
Drop the fake coin into another pocket and then start to unfold the package revealing the copper coin inside (still keeping the card back to the audience). After some by-play, ask for the name of the previously selected card and turn it face to the audience for the grand finale!
