I haven't kept up with this thread for a while. You can see videos of my techniques and routines on my YouTube channel, Rubinstein Coin Magic, under the playlist of the same name. Here is a video of many of the techniques used in the book. Be sure to turn the volume up at the end to hear the sounds of the coins in the click pass section.
https://youtu.be/XUrRNF7BsTM

Wow just finally got my copy and this book really is more beautiful in person. There is so much here, I can’t wait to dig in for years to come!

I’m not sure, but it seems there will be several volumes ?

Well, I wrote that book, thinking that my illness might get the best of me. Fortunately, it didn't, so who knows? I left out a lot of material because it was already 500 pages, so still have material I can put into another volume. But not for a while, this book took me a full year to write, edit, and publish.

Michael. Thanks for the link to the videos. This is helpful when following along in the book.

Glad it has helped!

I LOVE this book! A 500 page Volume 2 would be EPIC! Take your time, Dr. Mike! The thought of it thrills me!

Doug

Although at this time there are no direct plans for a sequel, I will be releasing a NEW coins across comedy routine "beary" soon!

Rubinstein Coin Magic has just been ordered for its FOURTH printing. Thanks to everyone who bought it. I hope you all enjoy the journey!

From Michael Close from his blog:

Review by Michael Close

The past few years have been boom times for coin magic enthusiasts. In 2017, the much-anticipated Geoff Latta: The Long Goodbye was released. The following year Giacomo Bertini’s System for Amazement arrived. Both of these books offered a plethora of new sleights and routines.

Then, in June of last year, the spirits of coin magicians were lifted by the publication of a huge new coin book, one rivaling J.B. Bobo’s New Modern Coin Magic in both physical size and scope. The book is Rubinstein Coin Magic by Dr. Michael Rubinstein, and it is sure to join Bobo’s book and David Roth’s Expert Coin Magic as one the three great pillars of coin conjuring.

If you don’t know who Michael Rubinstein is, here’s some background. Michael received a few magic tricks from an aunt at age nine, but the magic bug didn’t really bite until age fifteen, when an uncle taught him the French drop and he received a copy of New Modern Coin Magic as a birthday gift. Almost immediately, he began developing his own techniques.

He moved to Italy to study veterinary medicine in 1977. There, he met local magicians, and participated in (and won) several contests. In 1985, just before leaving Europe with his veterinary degree, Michael produced the Master Coin Technique video series in German; this was later released by L&L Publishing as the three-volume Encyclopedia of Coin Sleights.

Michael joined forces with David Roth and Mike Gallo to produce the long-running New York Coin Magic Seminar. The DVD series generated from those gatherings ran to sixteen volumes, and featured the best coin magicians from around the world. Michael’s magic has also appeared in Apocalypse, Richard’s Almanac, MAGIC magazine, Genii, and other magazines.

It’s important to know, Rubinstein Coin Magic is not a compilation of everything Michael has published in the last thirty-plus years. It is a distillation of that material. In the Introduction, Michael writes, “I am very proud of the material in this book. I decided that instead of including all my material (such as older handlings, routines I felt were outdated, or moves I no longer use), I would just include my best material. I feel that there is something here for everyone.” You will also find a great deal of previously unpublished material.

With age and experience, Michael Rubinstein’s approach to magic has shifted. He explains this new perspective in the Introduction:

“My philosophy on coin magic has changed, and is reflected in the routines that I have included. When I started out in coin magic, I focused more on technical routines that contained difficult moves. Over the years I discovered what so many other experienced pros realized. Magic doesn’t need to be knuckle busting; it needs to be entertaining. I began to focus on presentation over difficulty. That doesn’t mean that some of the material isn’t challenging, it is. But instead of doing something because it was impressive to other magicians, I tried to make the moves look as magical as possible – when possible, to avoid extra finger movement.

“Magicians are very forgiving about a bit of strange finger movement if the final trick is good. Laymen will look at that as something suspicious. As such, whenever I watched myself doing magic and I didn’t like the way my hands looked, I changed the move. And, I tried to make my audience smile. In other words, my magic style developed in order to focus on laymen magic over magician magic.”

The contents of Rubinstein Coin Magic are far too wide ranging to review in detail, so I’ll have to settle for a brief summary. Part One (six chapters) contains information on various coin techniques, including Rubinstein’s R.O.P.S move, vanishes, shuttle passes, loads, changeover palms, click passes, Spellbound moves, false counts, Rubinstein’s Stealth palm, and various other techniques.

Part Two (eleven chapters) contains effects grouped by the general theme of the effect. These familiar plots include: Copper/Silver routines, Wild Coin effects, Spellbound routines, Coins through the Table, Coins Across, Coin Productions and Vanishes, routines using coins and cards, gaffed coin routines, tricks with coins and poker chips, and miscellaneous routines. There is a large section with contributions from Michael Rubinstein’s friends, including Mike Gallo, Nathan Kranzo, Moritz Mueller, Tom Gagnon, Marc DeSouza, Miguel Angel Gea, Giacomo Bertini, and David Roth. There’s a tasty Easter egg in this chapter; don’t pass it by.

The book concludes with three bonus routines and a chapter of puns for any occasion. Michael is a fan of puns and did not think the book would be complete without including some. Whether or not you’ll find this section useful depends on your sense of humor and your performing style.

Michael Rubinstein’s writing style is clear; the hundreds of excellent black-and-white photographs show every detail of the action. You should have no problem learning from this book.

Encompassing every major coin plot and coin technique, Rubinstein Coin Magic will become a standard text on the subject; there’s enough material here to last you the rest of your life. For anyone interested in coin magic, this book is a must-have and should be in your library.

[Note: If you want to get an idea of the material in the book, Michael has a YouTube channel with video demonstrations of some of the moves and the routines. You’ll find it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6JOjhW....../videos]


    

Another five star review from Gerhard on the vanishingincmagic website.

"I have spent a considerable time with this book and I have learned so much from it. I much prefer this over Bobo (I know its much more expensive), its worth is weight in gold (its about as heavy as well). There is great coverage of classic effects, and I would even go as far as to say that I prefer the sleights over some of the Roth methods. Just my humble opinion. If you are serious about Coin Magic - get this! I would also advise that you buy the DVD by Rubinstein - Encyclopedia of Coins Sleights. Its best of both worlds to have the book and DVD. You wont regret it!"

Available at all dealers. And, I still have a few books available for signing, and they come with a special FREE GIFT. If you are still looking for one, as well as MIGRATE or the close-up version of The Other Hand, contact me at rubinsteindvm@aol.com

A couple things about this book I wish to share:

- I wish I had known I could get the book from Rubinstein directly. I picked it up at a magic shop based on some great feedback but, doing it again, would have gone straight to the source.

- This book changed how I looked at coin magic. To be fair, I had tried, and mostly given up on coin magic decades ago. For whatever reason, this book resonated with me. Enough that I picked up the Roth book (for a pretty penny since it was before the reprint was announced) and dove back in to Bobo's NMCM.

This is a really, really great book. Highly recommended. I am not a coin guy by any stretch. Or at least I didn't used to be!

Thank you Chris K!

Selling off some of my Lassen collection and witnessing the enthusiasm from these buyers made me take a serious look towards coin magic all over again. Had the Encyclopedia of Coin Sleights DVDs for many years but only recently watched all 3 volumes. Amazing instructions far surpassing Bobo, a book that did not inspire me back in my early Magic years. Just received today my copy of Rubinstein Coin Magic from Meir Yedid. Preliminary impression on going through it - WOW! Rick Holcombe was spot on in his YouTube review. Nice that copies from mymagic.com were autographed with a nice dedication. Will definitely spend a great deal of time with this book and those Encyclopedia videos (bought the download version to study on my iPad Pro, but nice to have physical copies, too).

Just stumbled across this post!

Glad I could help convince you in any small way. It really is an invaluable contribution to all the classic texts on coin magic.

Time to show some love for the spanish speaking magicians - Rubinstein Coin Magic is now out in SPANISH, with a special
Foreword by Luis Pedrahita!

***Piedrahita***
darn typos!

Here is Luis Piedrahita talking about Rubinstein Coin Magic (in Spanish). If you understand, enjoy!
https://youtu.be/zpN6i4xeVGE?si=0hrT-QRbHBEilBXZ