Coin Magic - A Complete Manual of Coin Conjuring

By Jean Hugard

Sleights and tricks with coins including the Miser's Dream using several different methods. A specialized book on this very popular branch of magic. Besides the various moves, it also contains routines and covers various types of gimmicked coins.  88 printed pages, over 100 illustrations.

Contents Include:

Chapter 1: Basic Sleights and Changes
2 The Palm Proper
3 The French Drop
4 The French Drop Variation
4 The Pinch
5 The Thumb Palm
5 The Pick-Up
5 Changes
6 1. By Means of the Palm Proper
6 2. With One Hand
7 3. By Means of the Thumb Palm
7 4. By Means of a Small Tray

Chapter II Sleight of Hand Tricks
7 Coin and Card
8 The Melting Coin
9 The Flying Coin
11 Filtration of Coins
12 Coin Filtration - Second Method
13 Traveling Coins
13 Coin Through Hat
14 Coin Through a Deck Into a Glass
15 Flying Coins
15 A Coin Through the Hand
16 All Change
17 Two Coins and Two Tumblers
17 Boy and Coins
18 A Walking Penny
19 Head or Tail, A Surprise Trick
20 Another Method
20 Coin and Glass of Water
21 Dime and Handkerchief
22 Coin and Apple
23 The Best Coin Fold
23 - Variation
24 Another Coin Fold
24 - A Third Method
25 Dime and Half Dollar Vanish
25 Coin Through a Table
26 Dime and Matchbox
27 A Thought Reading Trick

Chapter III Easy Tricks, Flourishes and Catches
28 Vanishing a Dime
28 Variation - A Good Catch
28 Vanishing Dime
29 Sleeve Button Vanish
29 Heads or Tails
29 Amusing Dime Catch
29 Dime and Ginger Ale Bottle
29 A Useful Move
29 The Spinning Coin
30 The Weeping Queen
30 Trouser Cuff Vanish
30 Trouser Fold Vanish
30 The Perforated Coin
31 Dime in Ear
31 Coin in Knot in Handkerchief
31 Wand and Wax
31 Rubber Hand Vanish
31 Heads or Tails
32 Balancing a Coin
32 A Wonderful Juggle
33 The Elbow Catch
33 Spin the Coin
33 A Pretty Juggle
33 To Pick Up a Dime With the Palm
33 A Pretty Flourish

Chapter IV Tricks With Faked Coins and Apparatus
34 The Triangular Coin Stand
34 The Melting Coin
35 Another Method
35 The Coin Glass
36 The Pile of Pennies
37 The Weeping Coin
37 Penny Changes to a Dime
38 Penny and Dime
38 Half Dollar and Penny
39 The Wiesenheimer Coin Trick
40 The Talking Coin
41 Coin and Bottle
41 An Easy Trick
41 Coin and String
42 A Finger Gimlet
43 A Penetrating Coin
43 Silver to Bronze

Chapter V Advanced Sleights
44 1. Vanish 1
44 2. Vanish 2
45 3. Vanish 3
46 Chapender's Method of Palming
46 Two Finger Palm
47 Advanced Flourishes
47 - The Steeplechase
48 - The Coin Turn Over
48 - Vanish and Recovery of Stack of Coins
48 Sleeving From Back of Left Hand 
49 Spinning Coin Into the Air
49 - Some Variations
49 Modifications of the French Drop

Chapter VI Advanced Tricks
50 Cards and Coins
51 An Optical Illusion?
52 The Sympathetic Coins
54 Coin and Envelopes
56 Coin and Oranges
56 The Peripatetic
58 Han Ping Chien Coin Trick
58 Slow Motion Vanish
59 Filtration of Money - Advanced Method
60 A Blindfold Detection

Chapter VII Advanced Manipulative Sleights
62 The Production Grip
62 The Back and Front Palm
62 To Vanish the Coin at the Back of the Hand
63 To Bring the Coin to the Front of the Fingers
63 The Front Finger Clip
64 The Back Finger Clip: two methods
64 The Back Thumb Palm
65 The Front Thumb Palm
65 Production From Front Thumb Palm
66 The Pinch Vanish
66 The Front Edge Palm
67 Acquitment for Front Edge Palm
67 The Change Over From Front Edge Palm
68 The Toss Vanish
68 Thumb Pass

Chapter VIII The Miser's Dream
69 The Original Method
70 The Miser's Dream - Stage Presentation
70 The Receptacle
71 The Loads of Coins
72 The Setting of the Act
73 The First Coin to be Caught
73 - First Method
73 - Second Method
74 - Third Method
74 - Fourth Method
74 Repeated Catches
75 Securing the Second Load in Left Hand
76 Finish
77 With Glass Bowl on Table Only
78 A Brilliant Manipulation

Chapter IX Manipulations and Advanced Flourishes
79 I. With Four Coins
80 II. With Four Coins
81 III. With Five Coins
82 IV. With Five Coins

Chapter X Gags for Miser's Dream

Details: Coin Magic - A Complete Manual of Coin Conjuring

88 pages, softcovers, saddle-stitched, size 5 1/2" by 8 1/2".