How to Perform the Disappearing Coin Trick
One quarter with $0.25. Now you see it, now you don’t. In the handkerchief, watch carefully but tricks will do this. Here are the properties for the vanishing and reappearing coin. One scarf, two quarters and one rubber band. One quarter goes in your side pocket. The audience is not aware of this. The audience is also not aware of this rubber band which you twist and hold on your fingers thusly. And you can seal it by holding that under the scarf that way.
Now the basis of this effect is actually the vanish of the coin. It’s a very ancient trick. So ancient I don’t think anybody knows its origin. But here's the technique. Here's what's actually happening. I will do it without the scarf and then I’ll show you what the technique is with the scarf.
As you drape the scarf over, as you bring the hands to the center, what you’re really doing is you’re getting your thumb under the rubber bands and opening them up. You see, so the coin goes into the handkerchief, its going inside the rubber band. And I’ll show you a bit what that’s like. So you imagine that.
I'm holding this here. Now as I take the scarf as I go under, I put the thumb under and I come under in that position in the center of the scarf. And that’s what really was going on. You see that like that. So when the coin goes in the center of the scarf, it goes between my three fingers and under the rubber band. As I do that, it’s locked in. So it can't fall. And that’s what it looks like. And I’ll show that again. And remember the set up. And the hand goes under, you do that, okay.
So here's what it looks like. You can seal a rubber band on your fingers by holding the end of the scarf. As you drape it over, you perform that maneuver, okay. This goes here like that. You can turn your hand and—I've released the rubber band over the coin. And all I've got to do is take the quarter and just flick it and it seems to be hanging free. And now I turn, that’s to say they didn’t hear a drop and the scarf is hanging rather naturally. The coin cannot be there, so by showing the duplicate coin, they assume that it flick in your pocket. And that’s the answer to that.
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