I’m working on a coin transpostion, it’s essentially something that I used to do a long time ago. I was inspired to play with it again after getting Craig Petty’s Apparition. This two phase routine uses just the two coins (and a shell).
The effect is a silver dollar and an Asian coin with a hole in it change places. First in your hands and the second time with one in your hand and one in someone from the audience’s hand.
Here’s the routine:
This is my Nana’s coin purse, do you know what’s inside it?
That’s right coins! I had a kid say, “your nana”…That’d be messed up if I just poured out her ashes.
There’s a silver dollar. That’s Dwight Eisenhower, he was a four start general, the 34th president of the United States and he did all of that while bald!
This is an ancient Asian token, it dates back to the Nintendo Dynasty. It says, “Our princess is in another castle”.
The Asian token goes in this hand and like the movie Freaky Friday, they change places!
Here you hang onto the coins. I’m going to take one from your hand…it’s the silver dollar.
Fist bump!
I’ve got the Asian token and you have…
…The silver dollar!
I feel like this needs a third phase. It’s a great two phase routine, but feels unfinished. I might play with adding a one coin routine to the end of it. That may give it a sense of closure.
-Louie