Learned colleagues,

I apologise if this post is in the wrong place, or if it is simply ignorant. My main fix is cards, but this is a question that has been bugging me for ages.

This is a simple, but very effective coin transfer that has been used as an occasional after dinner trick by several generations of my family. They are otherwise not particularly interested in magic. I am curious to know where it came from. I cannot find it in Bobo's, which is my only coin reference.

The basic effect is this:
It uses a single, normal coin. The performer's hands are laid face up on the table, 12-18 inches apart. The coin is held in the open palm of the right hand. The hands are simultaneously turned smartly palm-down on the table. The performer asks "which hand?" and the audience invariably point to the right. The hands are then turned face-up, demonstrating the coin to have travelled invisibly to the left hand.

regards

hitmouse

Its called "throwing a coin into your other hand real fast". I don't know if there is someone who can actually be credited for that.

They say to use Pennys on the hampton vid.
Doesn't seem very magical to me though. My nephew from Kansas showed me the same thing only in mid air. Still didn't seem very magical.

That effect is actually in Bobos, but it is under coin transformation section I believe. It is described with two coins. Each hand has it's own coin, and "throws one really fast" to the other. The effect need not be done fast at all though. If the hand are arcked smoothly up, and turned over at the top of the arc, the transfer can be invisible. Both coins end up under whichever hand you choose.

John Eddington

I think Rick Anderson does a really deceptive coins across with halves using this method. They go across one at a time. No counting, no phony moves. (except the one under discussion)I saw it late night at a convention in the 70's.