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Easy Coin Switch

Apprentice ~15 min to learn

The effect — what they see

You take a borrowed coin balanced on a single card and carry it to your table without ever closing your hand over it. You openly tip the coin off the card into a glass, pointing out that your fingers never touched it. To the audience the coin in the glass is unmistakably the one they lent you, when in fact it has already been quietly exchanged for a duplicate.

Can I learn this now?

A little rehearsal will do it; nothing difficult to handle. It uses a prepared or special pack — see Quick Facts.

Watch it performed

How to perform the coin card balance trick | Pub Tricks · Pub TricksMore on YouTube

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