Glued Coins

48 entries in Coin / Gaffed / Glued Coins
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown The Travelling Counters twelve coins, travel around, at one point they are stuck together to a solid block
 		1876 Modern Magic 180
George Starke The Ghost Coins handful of coins vanish, soldered coins
Also published here Nov. 1944 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 2 No. 6) 83
George Starke The Ghost Coins handful of coins vanish, soldered coins
Also published here 1945 My Best 188
Alfred "Agys" Gysler Ein Ehering kommt zurück... "Das magische Pfand", four coins placed inside purse and change to spectator's finger ring, clever glued coin gimmick
 		1945 Hokus Pokus (Vol. 7 No. 3) 12
Gene Gordon Short Changed several coins vanish, glued coins with hook
 		1952 Modern Coin Magic 262
Dan Tong Perambulating Coins various travels and hand penetration with penny and nickle, using gimmick with penny/nickle glued together
 		1969 HEX! 70
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Coins In Flight 1. six coins travel from hand to tray
2. repeat with two
3. from hand to hand
4. two spectators have twelve coins, four travel across
 		Winter 1969 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5 No. 3rd Folio) 299
Roy Johnson Cent three coins in hand, always one is removed and when spectator is asked how many are left in the hand, he is wrong, after some repetition a perfume bottle appears in the hand
Inspired by
  • a routine by Milbourne Christopher in "Hugard's Magic Monthly"
 1970 The Roy Johnson Experience 23
Roy Johnson The Affectionate Coins six coins and washer, three coins in each hand, they penetrate table, repeat, repeat upwards, washer and glass through table as well
Variations 1970 The Roy Johnson Lecture Notes 3
Milton Kort Nomad Coins: 2 three different coins under handkerchief, vanish and appear under card in stages
Also published here 1972 Magick (Issue 52) 259
Jerry Mentzer Inflation several pennies dropped in other hand, they change into single dollar-sized penny
 		1975 Super Cents 21
Roy Johnson Forceful six coins and washer, three coins in each hand, they penetrate table, repeat with glass and small plunger
Inspired by 1979 Final Call 29
Al Leech A Bicycle Built For Profit quarters appear on the deck
 		1980 Al Leech's Legacy 26
Steve Dusheck By the Handful single penny changes into dime, then bunch of pennies change into dimes
Also published here 1980 ca. Lecture No. 1 2
Steve Dusheck Great Pretender vanishing a handful of pennies in clear tube
 		1980 ca. Lecture Notes 7
Steve Dusheck By the Handful single penny changes into dime, then bunch of pennies change into dimes
Also published here 1980 ca. Lecture Notes 8
Edward Marlo "They're Here, No - There, No Where?" 4-card gimmicked Matrix with coins glued together
 		1981 CoinMagic 164
Steve Beam Counting Forty as Four spectator gets glimpse of load of coins which then vanishes without ever being produced
 		1982 Steve Beam On Coins — Volume II 31
Curtis Kam Inverted Matrix II using two coins glued together
 		1982 All the World's a Stage 46
Roy Baker All Change Twenty pence coin placed with handful of ten pence, all change to twenty pence
 		1983 Baker's Capers 27
Michael Powers, Jay Sankey Fusion Plus Standing two quarters become a half-dollar, repeat, then two half-dollars transform into dollar, no-lap version
Inspired by 1983 Powerful Magic 69
Thomas Hierling "M.D.D.T." Climax three coins through the table, as finale the coins travel up at once and are welded together
 		1987 New Wave Close-Up 111
Aldo Colombini Gimmick matrix with backfire, special gimmick
 		1991 FISM Lecture Notes 12
Steve Dusheck Hybrid Coin three stacked coin shown, when turned over one coin has vanishes, half coin stuck to another coin gaff
Variations 1992 Dusheck's Coin Magic 1
Steve Dusheck All at Once four coins through table at once
 		1992 Dusheck's Coin Magic 70
Steve Dusheck Penny Pile pile of pennies changes into a nickel
 		1992 Dusheck's Coin Magic 82
Steve Dusheck Coin Force different coins shaken and covered with other hand, spectator reaches in and takes force coin
 		1993 Dusheck's Mental Magic 11
Mike Gallo Clinging Coins three copper coins in purse change places with silver coins in performer's hand
 		1995 The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 57) 1081
Mike Gallo Well Hung Coins
Inspired by 1995 The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 57) 1084
Harry Riser The Cap and Quarters
1996 The Feints and Temps of Harry Riser 130
Sam Schwartz Bottled penny and quarter in hand, hand-pocket sequence, chosen coin travels into miniature bottle, first marketed in 1964
Related to 1997 The Fine Print (Issue 6) 151
R. Paul Wilson A Trick With A Little Piece Of Cork with three instead of four coins
 		1998 Five Times Five — Scotland 109
Milton Kort Nomads in the Dunes Three different coins under handkerchief, vanish and appear under card in stages (first published in New Pentagram, vol. 10, no. 11, Jan 1979)
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 1999 Kort 197
Milton Kort Two From Four Equals...? Four coins under handkerchief, one coin travels to pocket, other coins disappear
Inspired by 1999 Kort 203
David Neighbors Handkerchief Slow Motion Vanish four coins assemble one by one under the corners of a tabled handkerchief, then they vanish
 		Sep. 2001 Ego (Vol. 1 No. Special Edition #1) 3
Unknown Two Coin Gimmick
Sep. 2001 Ego (Vol. 1 No. Special Edition #1) 3
David Neighbors Handkerchief Slow Motion Reverse Vanish four coins assemble one by one under the corners of a tabled handkerchief, then they vanish
 		Sep. 2001 Ego (Vol. 1 No. Special Edition #1) 6
Reed McClintock The International Dissolve coins from different countries vanish and reappear under card
Inspired by 2002 Knuckle Busters Vol. 3 7
Reed McClintock Searched & Destroyed V.C.A. Conquered three coins from different countries travel between fingertips
 		2004 Knuckle Busters Vol. 6 8
Michael Powers Progressive Matrix using three coins glued on edges (E Pluribus Unum)
 		2006 Power Plays 197
Rocco Silano Flash Coins Across coins across, gimmick with glued coins
 		2012 The F.F.F.F. Book 239
Tomas Blomberg Cashing Bank Night effect, using the condition of heads or tails of five coins to select the envelopes
Inspired by 2014 Blomberg Laboratories 18
Koudai Cointeger dollar is split in two half dollars, then in four quarters, then reversed back to a dollar
 		Mar. 2015 Genii (Vol. 78 No. 3) 36
Matt Baker Quantum Matrix Presentation idea for classic coin Matrix effect, four coins and four cards, backfire ending, uses Siamese coins gimmick by Mike Gallo
Inspired by 2019 The Buena Vista Shuffle Club 144
Jeff Prace Hybrid Coin
  • Left-Handed
three coins travel from one hand to the other, half coin stuck to another coin gaff
Inspired by Feb. 2019 Genii (Vol. 82 No. 2) 62
Michael Rubinstein Oil and Water three copper and three silver coins alternately put in one hand, they separate, repeat, then the coins become a solid block
Related toAlso published here
  • Penguin Two Live lecture, 2016
 2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 114
Michael Rubinstein Magnetic Coins coins are apparently magnetic
Also published here
  • At the Table lecture, 2017
 2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 290
Motoki Kaido Monster Spellbound Coin rapidly changes between four different types of coins, lots of one handed changes. Finally changes into dollar bill
Related to 2021 The Monster of the Secret Art 161