An Easy Coin Vanish
If you want to have a magic routine that really fascinates people, that truly makes them feel a sense of wonder, then you should add vanishing tricks to your repertoire.
Making some solid object seem to vanish into thin air before your spectator's eyes is one of the most enduring and popular, not to mention mystifying feats any magician can perform.
One of the most versatile objects to vanish is a coin as many coin vanishes can be achieved without any props or gimmicks, can use borrowed coins and can be performed impromptu anywhere, anytime.
Learn this coin magic vanish and you will always be able to impress...
Fundamentally, there are three different ways in which a coin can be made to 'vanish'.
Either you can hide the coin, move the coin or fake the coin.
Many effective coin vanishes use several of these techniques.
In all cases, some knowledge of the art of misdirection is useful, if not essential, to pull off the illusion to best effect.
Let's take a look at an actual coin vanish.
This is one I use all the time.
It's great because you can do it anywhere: on the street, in the pub, at home, school, the office, anywhere! Another advantage is that there are no problems with angles so you can have people watching you from all around and they will not see what you're up to! This one I've also chosen as it uses all the above three principles in one simple yet powerful coin vanish effect.
That way you'll understand better how these things can work.
An Easy Coin Vanish This vanish uses several techniques including a 'Finger Palm', 'The Ramsay Subtlety' and a 'False Transfer'.
The effect: you display a coin in the palm of your left hand for all to see (the coin can be borrowed from the audience).
You then take the coin in your right hand, enclosing it in your fist.
You raise your left hand, the palm now empty and point with your index finger to the right hand which is concealing the coin.
You say, "Watch!" You stare at the right hand as you slowly un-curl your fingers.
The coin has vanished! You show both hands empty to the audience.
How is it done? To perform this coin vanish you start out with the coin honestly placed on the open palm of your left hand.
You indicate the coin with your right hand.
Then, in one smooth, easy gesture, you lay the fingers of your right hand over the coin and slide it forward towards the finger tips of your left hand, as if to slide it off your hand and take it up between the fingers and thumb of the right.
Actually, you leave the coin on the fingers of the left hand, resting on the middle and ring fingers, between the two knuckles.
Your fingers then curve naturally round a little, securing the coin and hiding it from view.
This is called the 'Finger Palm'.
If the gesture is entirely smooth, relaxed and natural, then no one will notice that the coin has been left behind because they will all be watching the right hand to which they now think the coin has been transferred.
This is the 'False Transfer'.
So now you are holding up an empty fist in which everyone thinks the coin is concealed and you actually have the coin concealed in a Finger Palm in the left hand.
You now raise the left hand, palm outward and with the index finger up.
The coin remains concealed in the Finger Palm position.
The audience see the empty palm and they believe that the coin is in the right hand.
This serves as a powerful 'convincer' that the coin is no longer in the left hand.
This is called the 'Ramsay Subtlety'.
You do not draw attention to this move.
Let it work subconsciously.
You then use the finger to point towards the right fist as you say, '"Watch!" Throughout the entire move your eyes are fixed on the empty right fist.
At this point, as you begin very slowly to un-curl the fingers, you can be 100% sure that the audience's attention will be on what you are doing over there and no-one will see as you ditch the coin in you pocket, or sleeve it.
Once your fist is open, the coin vanish is complete and you can show both hands cleanly empty to the audience! Of course if you borrowed the coinyour spectator might want it back - in which case you will have to learn a coin production trick, too.
Either that or how to run very fast!
Making some solid object seem to vanish into thin air before your spectator's eyes is one of the most enduring and popular, not to mention mystifying feats any magician can perform.
One of the most versatile objects to vanish is a coin as many coin vanishes can be achieved without any props or gimmicks, can use borrowed coins and can be performed impromptu anywhere, anytime.
Learn this coin magic vanish and you will always be able to impress...
Fundamentally, there are three different ways in which a coin can be made to 'vanish'.
Either you can hide the coin, move the coin or fake the coin.
Many effective coin vanishes use several of these techniques.
In all cases, some knowledge of the art of misdirection is useful, if not essential, to pull off the illusion to best effect.
Let's take a look at an actual coin vanish.
This is one I use all the time.
It's great because you can do it anywhere: on the street, in the pub, at home, school, the office, anywhere! Another advantage is that there are no problems with angles so you can have people watching you from all around and they will not see what you're up to! This one I've also chosen as it uses all the above three principles in one simple yet powerful coin vanish effect.
That way you'll understand better how these things can work.
An Easy Coin Vanish This vanish uses several techniques including a 'Finger Palm', 'The Ramsay Subtlety' and a 'False Transfer'.
The effect: you display a coin in the palm of your left hand for all to see (the coin can be borrowed from the audience).
You then take the coin in your right hand, enclosing it in your fist.
You raise your left hand, the palm now empty and point with your index finger to the right hand which is concealing the coin.
You say, "Watch!" You stare at the right hand as you slowly un-curl your fingers.
The coin has vanished! You show both hands empty to the audience.
How is it done? To perform this coin vanish you start out with the coin honestly placed on the open palm of your left hand.
You indicate the coin with your right hand.
Then, in one smooth, easy gesture, you lay the fingers of your right hand over the coin and slide it forward towards the finger tips of your left hand, as if to slide it off your hand and take it up between the fingers and thumb of the right.
Actually, you leave the coin on the fingers of the left hand, resting on the middle and ring fingers, between the two knuckles.
Your fingers then curve naturally round a little, securing the coin and hiding it from view.
This is called the 'Finger Palm'.
If the gesture is entirely smooth, relaxed and natural, then no one will notice that the coin has been left behind because they will all be watching the right hand to which they now think the coin has been transferred.
This is the 'False Transfer'.
So now you are holding up an empty fist in which everyone thinks the coin is concealed and you actually have the coin concealed in a Finger Palm in the left hand.
You now raise the left hand, palm outward and with the index finger up.
The coin remains concealed in the Finger Palm position.
The audience see the empty palm and they believe that the coin is in the right hand.
This serves as a powerful 'convincer' that the coin is no longer in the left hand.
This is called the 'Ramsay Subtlety'.
You do not draw attention to this move.
Let it work subconsciously.
You then use the finger to point towards the right fist as you say, '"Watch!" Throughout the entire move your eyes are fixed on the empty right fist.
At this point, as you begin very slowly to un-curl the fingers, you can be 100% sure that the audience's attention will be on what you are doing over there and no-one will see as you ditch the coin in you pocket, or sleeve it.
Once your fist is open, the coin vanish is complete and you can show both hands cleanly empty to the audience! Of course if you borrowed the coinyour spectator might want it back - in which case you will have to learn a coin production trick, too.
Either that or how to run very fast!
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