The Flying Eagles Coin Trick

"Amaze others by making coins jump from hand to hand with this coin trick."

The Flying Eagles Coin Trick

This coin trick is coins across type effect. It is a favorite trick of Paul Diamond, a well known magic performer and dealer.

A total of eight coins, four silver and four copper, are used. Four copper coins are in a row on the left side while four silver coins form a row on the right side. A silver coin is placed on the left side. Every time a copper coin travels from left side to the right. One coin at a time the silver and copper coins change places. It is one of the easiest and most effective coin transposition effects I know. It was shown to J.B. Bobo by Senor Mardo during the S. A. M. Convention at Denver in 1949..

Working:

Arrange four copper coins in a vertical row on the table. Parallel with this row, and about five or six inches to the right, place four half dollars.
With the right hand, pick up one copper coin and as you pretend to place it in your left hand, palm it in the right. Close the left hand into a fist and turn it thumb side up.
Keeping the right hand palm down, gather up the remaining copper coins and insert them part way in the top of the left fist, then allow them to sink into the fist. Apparently the left hand holds four copper coins. Actually it contains only three, the fourth being concealed in the right palm.
Now as you pick up one of the silver coins with the right hand and place it on top of the left fist, say, "Every time I remove a silver coin from this row and add it to the copper coins (allow silver coin to sink into left fist, then take up the remaining three with the right hand) a copper coin travels over to take its place."
Open the right hand and spread four coins on the table, three silver and the copper which you had palmed previously.
Open the left hand, and as you spread the three copper and one silver on the table, call attention to the fact that one copper and one silver have changed places.
Go through the same motions three more times until all the copper coins are lined up on the right and all the silver coins are lined up on the left.

One of the nicest things about this routine is the method. Only one sleight is necessary to perform it—that is the one that retains the copper coin in the right hand. If you like this coin trick, there is a resource where you can learn more coin tricks like this one.

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Hot Tips

Even though the mystery makes use of only one sleight it is best to vary your methods. Instead of beginning as described, do this: With the left hand, pick up the four copper coins and arrange them in a row in the palm up right hand. Show them, then as you turn the right hand over retain one coin classic palmed and dump the other three into the left hand, which immediately closes and rattle them. Proceed as described.
For retaining a copper coin in the right hand the next three times execute the following three vanishes: Simple Vanish, Drop Vanish, and The Tunnel Vanish, or any three different vanishes.

*The Flying Eagles Coin Trick was selected, adapted, and modernized from Modern Coin Magic