So, what's the best coins across with borrowed coins?

I have two options here:

- Gary Jones' Pop Up Coins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZc8Bqljqj4
- The "classic" p*lm/cl*ck pass routine

Anyone have a better, three/four borrowed coins version?

Mr clean coins across by Jay Sankey it doesn't get much better when done well.

I like Gary's work and think that the pop-up move can fly if presented well.
Agreed, but despite trying over the years my fingers struggle to do a convincing Goshman pinch/Tenkai. Tyler Rabbit had a most excellent effect that could be done with borrowed coins, with signed and other varieties on his treasure hunt.
Charlie

Borrowed coins doesn't mean you can't switch in a gaff.

"borrowed" is the memory you want in the story they tell - it is not a limitation on illusion.

Flying Eagles and Daryl's Mysterious Cross of India.

Jim

Both the Talahassee Jumping coins and the Specciolini Brothers from Rubinstein Coin Magic can be done with borrowed coins (quarters).

Lots to digest here...!

Also - I got your book, Doc - it's fantastic, thank you for putting it together!

Hope everyone's staying safe. Thanks for the replies, folks!

This appears with an explanation on the April 1, 2011 posting on the Perverse Magic thread of the Genii Forum and on page 221 of Gerald Deutsch’s Perverse Magic: The First Sixteen Years.


Effect

1 Dinner was over and the check was paid and then his wifes friend asked him if he would do a trick.

Okay. Do you or your husband have two pennies?

His wifes friend reaches into her purse and pulls out a handful of change and gives the magician two pennies. The magician puts one penny on each of his two palms and turns his hands face down on the table.

Okay watch. Ill make each of the two pennies travel to the other hand and change places. Watch!

He lifts his hands and it looks like nothing happened.

Everyone smiles and shakes their head.

2 Why are you laughing? that's hard. Ill do an easier one. Ill just make one coin go. Watch.

Again the magician puts one penny on each palm and again turns his hands face down on the table. This time when he lifts his left hand theres no penny and when he lifts his right hand both pennies are there.

Yeah well, that's easier than making both pennies travel. Ill do it again.

3 He picks up one penny with his right hand and puts it in his left and closes his left hand into a fist with the fingers above. He then picks up the other penny in his right hand, holds that in a fist also with the fingers above.

Watch. He gestures, opens his left fist nothing opens his right fist two pennies.

4 One more time he says and everyone is now watching very closely. He picks up a penny with his right hand and puts it in his left and closes his left hand into a fist with the fingers above. He shows his right hand clearly empty as he then picks up the other penny in his right hand, holds that in a fist also with the fingers above.

Again he gestures and opens his left hand, pleased, no penny but when he opens his right hand theres only one penny.

I hate when that happens! he says as he pulls back his left sleeve and shows the penny under his watch band.