Flourishes

94 entries in Coin / Sleights / Flourishes
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Arthur "Dr. Avon" Kollmann Die springenden Münzen flourish to make a coin jump into the air
Inspired by Sep. 1899 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 5 No. 9) 137
Arthur Toskana Ein Münzen-Jongliertrick juggling stunt, throwing or flicking coin up and catching it
 		Feb. 1900 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 6 No. 2) 29
Unknown The Coin Roll
1909 The Art of Magic 246
Unknown Advanced Flourishes 1. The Steeplechase (coin roll)
2. The Coin Turn Over (multiple coins spread turnover)
3. Vanish and Recovery of Stack of Coins
 		1935 Coin Magic 47
Jean Hugard Manipulations and Advanced Flourishes I. With Four Coins
II. With Four Coins
III. With Five Coins
IV. With Five Coins (including Roll Down)
 		1935 Coin Magic 79
T. Nelson Downs The Downs Coin Star on tips of fingers
 		1938 Greater Magic 719
Unknown A New Coin Flourish "The Steeplechase With Two Coins Rolling Separately"
 		1939 The Magic Annual for 1938 and 1939 52
Manuel Manuel's Coin Star
Variations 1943/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 3 137
Manuel The Four Coin Flourish roll out
Related to 1943/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 3 139
Allan Shaw The Coin Roll
1943/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 3 140
Frederick Braue Coin Tapping Count normal but elegant count of coins from glass to hand
 		Mar. 1944 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 1 No. 10) 42
Unknown Flourish with 3 Coins coins on back of hand, tossed and caught
 		Oct. 1945 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 3 No. 5) 161
Frank Garcia, Dai Vernon Quick Silver continuous coin production, with coin roll, based on a Vernon idea
 		1947 The Phoenix 101-150 (Issue 127) 511
Arthur H. Buckley The Roll Down Production for Four Coins roll out
Related toVariations 1948 Principles and Deceptions 66
John Brown Cook "The Multiple Roll Out" multiple times from larger stack
 		1948 Principles and Deceptions 114
Paul Rosini The Coin Star described by Al Leech
 		1950 Magical Gems 38
Unknown The Coin Roll
Also published here 1952 Modern Coin Magic 201
T. Nelson Downs The Downs Coin Star with wax on one coin
 		1952 Modern Coin Magic 202
Unknown Roll Down Flourish with Four Coins four coin roll-out
Related to 1952 Modern Coin Magic 204
Unknown The "Turnover" with Forty Coins
1952 Modern Coin Magic 320
Unknown The Jumping Sixpence coin turns or jumps from wrist
Related to 1952 Modern Coin Magic 337
Unknown Coin Flourish two coins are switched openly
 		1952 The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 268) 1070
Dai Vernon Five Coin Star
Related to 1957 The Dai Vernon Book of Magic 98
Milton Kort The Kort Star Coin Star, coin at each end of the fingers
 		1962 Kort Is Now In Session 31
Nate Leipzig Thumb Roll
1963 Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig 106
Unknown Coin Roll
1963 Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig 107
Nate Leipzig Boomarang Coin coin spinned on table flourish
 		1963 Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig 108
Bobby Bernard School For Croupiers coin flourishes, cutting the aces and dice stacking to a croupier presentation
 		1969 The Art of Close-Up Magic — Volume 2 225
Juan Tamariz E-Qui-Li-Brio coin roll flourish
Also published here 1969 Monedas, monedas... (y monedas) 17
Ellison Poland The Wrist Breaker coin turns or jumps from wrist
Related to 1969 Wonderful Routines of Magic 133
Unknown A Coin Flourish three coins held, center one is rolled out, spun and pivoted back between the other two, one-handed
 		1969 Wonderful Routines of Magic 141
Joseph K. Schmidt Coin Flourish one-handed, three coin stack, middle coin spun out and rotated, also popular with poker chips, see also p. 326 & p. 332
Variations Jan. 1970 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5 No. 3) 315
Unknown Chip Shuffle / Coin Faro flourish
 		1972 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 7 390
Stanley Collins A Flourish two balls moved around between the fingers, suggested with coins by Fulves
 		May 1973 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 8 No. 7) 623
Amedeo Vacca Cinquevalli Coins balancing coin on top of other, top one spins
 		1974 Amedeo's Continental Magic 81
Patrick Page The Steeple Jack coin roll
 		1974 Tricks with Coins 14
Unknown Juggling with Coins coin snatched from elbow etc.
 		1974 Tricks with Coins 58
Unknown The Spinning Coin in hat, flourish
 		1974 Tricks with Coins 63
Fred Robinson Edge Spinners bar bets and flourishes with coins
  • Finger Flicker, coin spinning
  • Thumb It, coin spinning with two hands
  • Tri-Van, sleeving technique while coin spins
  • Bottoms Up, coin spins on reversed tumbler
  • Nicked, how to hear on which side a coin lands on
  • Off Balance, coin lands always on the same side
  • Smash and Grab, spun coin vanishes by hitting a match box on it
  • For Two Pins, coin spins held by two pins
  • Skittled, coin is knocked over with an other coin
 		May 1975 Pabular (Vol. 1 No. 9) 106
Unknown Coin Roll
1976 Now you see it, now you don't! 108
Karl Fulves A Flourish and a Trick one-handed, three coin stack, middle coin spun out and rotated, effect where it is done under cover of a handkerchief and a sympathetic effect happens when center coin in another three-coin stack is turned over
Inspired by 1977 The Magic Book 99
Ross Bertram Devaluation half dollar changes into dime during coin roll flourish
 		1978 Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram 6
Unknown Perpetual-Motion Coin Myth impossible rotating coin flourish, mentioned by Bad Water Bill
 		1978 Las Vegas Close-Up 148
Bobby Bernard, T. Nelson Downs The Downs' Coin Star with anecdotes about Nelson Downs
 		1978 Bernard's Lesson on Coin Magic 24
Bobby Bernard The Bernard Lesson on the Coin Star
  • The Coins
  • The Condition of the Hands
  • Performing the Coin Star
  • Placing the Coins on the Fingers and Thumb
  • The Vanish
  • The Production
 		1978 Bernard's Lesson on Coin Magic 28
Unknown Coin Roll
1978 The second now you see it, now you don't! 156
Dana Betz The Betz Poker-Roll coin roll-out in which coins are rolled across table
 		1979 Close-up Entertainer 104
Unknown The Coin Star
1980 Al Leech's Legacy 59
Sol Stone Half and Half Rollout Flourish with transformation
 		1981 CoinMagic 118
Ron MacMillan The Basic Spread four coin roll out
 		1981 Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 49
Ron MacMillan The MacMillan Spread four coin roll out
 		1981 Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 50
Arthur H. Buckley The Buckley Spread four coin roll out
 		1981 Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 51
Ron MacMillan Spread Vanish and Coin Star
1981 Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 54
Ron MacMillan Coin Roll or "Steeplechase"
1981 Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 57
Ron MacMillan Alternative Handling for the coin roll

 		1981 Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 58
Ron MacMillan Palming Excercise palm + coin roll
 		1981 Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 59
Peter Reilly Peter Reilly's Coin Production producing coins one by one and let each roll down your fingers
 		1981 Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 59
Ron MacMillan The Coin Juggling Throw the coins wil spin in the air for some seconds as in Pierre Brahma's act
 		1981 Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 61
Ron MacMillan The Coin Star
Related to 1981 Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 68
Steve Beam Multiple Coin Spinning stack of coins is spun and they all fall with the same side up
 		1982 Steve Beam On Coins — Volume II 41
Ross Bertram The Coin Star anecdote
 		1983 Bertram on Sleight of Hand 83
Michael Powers Flourish Coin Production coin produced, coin roll, a second coin produced
 		1983 Powerful Magic 64
John Riggs 5 Coin Star in a circle formation, predated by Alex Elmsley 1952
Related to 1984 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 3) 42
Unknown Roll Down roll out flourish
 		1985 Korem without Limits 73
Frederick Braue Coin Tapping Count fairly counting coins from glass into hand for good visibility (1944)
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 5) 2
Karl Fulves Interlude "The Chase"
coin roll effect in which the coin changes back and forth to copper and silver, also idea for hinged coin gaff, posed as a problem
 		1985 S-C — Contemporary Money Magic (Issue 1) 10
Unknown Chips three impromptu magic items and gags with chips
  • Das Poker Chip Faromischen
 		Dec. 1986 Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3&4) 119
Unknown Münzen seventeen impromptu magic items and gags with coins
 		Dec. 1986 Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3&4) 133
Dai Vernon, Manuel Five Coin Star
Inspired byRelated to 1987 The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 1 204
Dai Vernon On the Origins of the Steeplechase Flourish
1989 The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 3 147
Unknown Flip Out No. 24, coin spins strangely when tossed up
 		1989 Self-Working Coin Magic 36
Unknown The Pivot No. 25, two coins held between fingers, first finger flips it to back, poker chip flourish
 		1989 Self-Working Coin Magic 37
Alex Elmsley The Rosette roll down with five coins
Related to 1994 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2 19
Unknown Perpetual-Motion Coin Myth impossible rotating coin flourish, mentioned by Bad Water Bill
 		1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Las Vegas Close-Up) 217
Dana Betz The Betz Poker-Roll coin roll-out in which coins are rolled across table
 		1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Close-up Entertainer) 135
Unknown Der Roll Down Griff roll-out
 		1996 Intermagic (Vol. 20 No. 3) 107
Simon Lovell The Supra-Selling of the Lemming Man
  • Selling the Roll Out (four-coin roll-out flourish)
  • Selling the Six-Dice Stack
  • Grandfather's Beer (beer production from dice stacking cup)
 		1997 Virtual Foolery 16
David Stone Eureka Koin coin accidentally dropped, it jumps back into hand
Also published here 1999 Mietek — Lecture Notes 44
Simon Lovell Coins, Dice and Grandfather's Beer! some bar bets, then full glass of beer produced
  • Stage One - Selling the Roll Out
  • Stage Two - Selling the Six Dice Stack
  • Stage Three - Grandfather's Beer
 		2000 Son of Simon Says! 143
David Stone Eureka Koin coin accidentally dropped, it jumps back into hand
Also published here 2001 X-Rated 17
Brett Wolf Coin Star set-up behind other hand
 		2002 The Book of Secrets 111
Reed McClintock Tabled Coin Star coins appear under fingertips on table while spectator was looking up
 		2002 Knuckle Busters Vol. 2 16
Arthur H. Buckley Four Coin Roll Out four coin flourish between fingers.
Related to 2003 Knuckle Busters Vol. 4 8
Walter Rollins Chip Tip on the one-handed chip/coin faro shuffle
 		2004 Charlatan (Issue 8) 98
Brett Wolf Coin Star Handling
Mar. 2007 Antinomy (Vol. 3 No. 1) 29
Doug Conn Coin Star Palm coin star, followed by palming two coins
 		Aug. 2013 Genii (Vol. 76 No. 8) 53
Tomoya Horiki Air Coin Roll(エアーコイン・ロール) Creating illusion of a coin rolling down your fingers without any coins
Related to 2017 Coinlang. 17
Geoffrey Latta Fingertip Twirl coin twirled at the fingertips, one-handed
Also published here 2017 The Long Goodbye — Latta on Coins 18
Johnny Thompson Jump Gag coin seems to jump out of hand
 		2018 The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1) 94
Unknown Coin Rollout
Feb. 2020 Genii (Vol. 83 No. 2) 79
Michael Rubinstein Rubinstein Fidget Move coin twirls through fingers
 		2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 57
Geoffrey Latta Fingertip Twirl coin twirled at the fingertips, one-handed
Also published here 2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 130
Mike Gallo A Poor Man's Roll Down roll out
Inspired by 2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 385
Kainoa Harbottle Steeplechase Shuttle Pass
Also published here
  • "Rolling Shuttle Pass", Coins on Edge, 2003
 2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 414