Coin Production from Two Cards Coin Trick

"With this coin trick you produce a coin magically from two regular playing cards."

Coin Production from Two Cards

If my memory serves me correctly, this coin trick appeared in The Sphinx some years back. It is a nice thing to know when you have to produce one coin, either at the beginning of a trick or at the climax, after a duplicate coin has been vanished.

Effect:

The prestidigitator shows two playing cards several times, front and back, in the fairest possible manner. Placing the two cards together he tips them downward and a coin slips from between them.

Method:

Begin with a half dollar classic palmed in the right hand, and a deck of cards face down in dealing position in the left hand. With the aid of the right hand, deal two cards face up onto the table, and lay the deck aside.
As you pick up the two cards with the left hand allow the palmed coin in the right to drop onto the curled fingers. Transfer the two cards to the right hand, which turns palm up and takes them by their inner ends between the thumb (on top) and fingers (below) in such a manner the coin will be covered by the cards, Fig. 1.
With the left hand, remove the top card from the right, holding it by one end. Show the faces of both cards as you hold them about waist high. Now raise them to chest level and show their backs. As you do this slide the coin inward toward the palm (almost off the card) and display the two cards held by their extreme ends, Fig. 2.
Now lower the cards to waist level and show their faces again. As you lower the cards slide the coin back underneath the right hand card so it will be completely hidden. Without hesitating a moment, place the right hand card diagonally across the top of the left in such a manner the half dollar will slide underneath the left hand card, where it is held by the tip of the left second finger, Fig. 3.
With the right hand (which has never released its grip on its card), slide the top card forward (paint brush fashion) off the lower card, Fig. 4, show its back, then turn it face up again and replace it in its crossed position above the left hand card, Fig. 3.
Retain the coin in position with the tip of the right second finger while the left hand removes its card (duplicating the above action as much as possible. Fig. 5), shows its back, and returns it underneath the right hand card AND coin. The coin is now between the two cards. And if you have blended the moves together perfectly, no one—not even a magician—will know of its presence.
The next step is to produce the coin. This you do by holding the crossed cards between the fingers and thumb of the right hand (with pressure on the coin to hold it in place between the two cards), then tipping them downward allowing the coin to come into view from between the two cards, Fig. 6. Rest the edge of the lower card on the upturned left hand, which stops the coin before it is entirely out from between the two cards. This shows that the coin actually comes from between the cards.

Hot Tip

Another way of using this is to show the two cards front and back as described, without producing the coin. The cards are merely placed on the table in the crossed position with the half dollar between the two. A second coin is vanished and the top card is blown away, exposing the supposedly vanished coin lying on the lower card.

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A lengthy description has been necessary to give you these moves. The actual performance of the effect takes only a few seconds. All moves smoothly combine into a progressive sequence. The appearance of the coin is both baffling and pretty.

*Coin Production from Two Cards Coin Trick is selected, adapted, and modernized from Modern Coin Magic.