How to Perform Coin Magic: Revealing the Secrets and Techniques of Simple Tricks
When you’re asked to do something funny on the spot—like at a party or when someone says, “Come on, show us something cool!”—it can be hard to decide what to do, right?
That’s where coin magic comes in: it’s easy to perform and a hit with just about anyone!
If you’ve got some loose change, you can perform right away, and when people see coin magic up close, they’re sure to enjoy it.
In this article, we’ll cover a wide range of tricks—from self-working routines you can do just by following the steps, to ones that require a bit of practice to learn the techniques.
Among them, if you master a few types of “palms,” techniques for secretly holding a coin, you’ll be able to adapt them to many different tricks.
Give it a try!
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How to do coin magic: Revealing the secrets and techniques of simple tricks (11–20)
Coin teleportation magic using a simple gimmick
Here’s a magic trick you can do anywhere with just two coins.
You show one coin in your right hand and one in your left, but before the audience realizes it, both coins end up in one hand.
The secret is simple: while your hands are overlapped, you flick the coin with the thumb of the other hand and send it under the opposite hand.
Practice your presentation so it looks dramatic.
Coin vanish magic using the French Drop
The French Drop is a classic technique used in magic tricks where a coin disappears.
This video explains the French Drop in a careful, beginner-friendly way.
To master this technique, you’ll also need the finger palm, so it might be challenging to attempt from the start.
Practice each step thoroughly, one at a time.
The coin vanishes when tapped with a pen.
A magic trick using a pen and a coin that also doesn’t require difficult sleight of hand.
You tap the coin resting on your left hand with a pen and… the coin vanishes from your left hand.
Then, when you open the pen cap, the coin appears from inside.
It happens in an instant, but you get to enjoy the impactful effect of a coin disappearing and reappearing.
Here’s how it works: at the moment you tap with the pen, you slightly lift the coin from your left hand and catch it with your right hand.
Then, as you open the pen cap, you let the coin in your right hand drop so it looks like it came out of the pen.
The key is smoothly combining the two actions—lifting the coin with your left hand and catching the lifted coin.
Practice a few times and challenge yourself to perform it naturally!
Coin teleportation using a card called the Coin Matrix
I’ll introduce a coin matrix that fuses coin magic and card magic.
You use four cards and some coins.
First, place the coins at four corners, then put a card on top of each coin.
At this point, have the audience check that there are no gimmicks.
Then, when you lift the cards, the coins appear to vanish.
The principle is surprisingly simple: when you handle the cards, you secretly palm and move the coins.
It requires dexterous hands, but if you pull it off, it will amaze your audience.
coin change
A 10-yen coin amazingly turns into two 500-yen coins! It’s a coin magic trick that will delight anyone who lent you some change.
Since a 10-yen coin and a 500-yen coin are completely different sizes, spectators will be excited, wondering where the extra coin came from.
But the method is simple: hold two 500-yen coins stacked together between your thumb and index finger, and place a 10-yen coin over the edge so that its printed face is visible, covering the side of the 500-yen stack.
From the front, only the 10-yen coin is visible.
Then, by moving the 10-yen coin behind the 500-yen coins, you can make it look like the 10-yen coin has transformed into two 500-yen coins.
As long as you pay attention to the angle, anyone can do it right away!
Coin vanishing magic using a thumb palm
Among the indispensable techniques of coin magic is the palm, a method of secretly holding a coin in the hand.
One of the easier holds with high freedom of hand movement is the thumb palm.
As the name suggests, it’s a technique where the coin is gripped between the thumb and index finger.
Because it’s merely pinched between the fingers, maintaining the hold is easy, but it may take some practice to get the coin into that position with natural movements.
It’s a good idea to start practicing with a slightly larger coin.
After vanishing the coin, you can simply open your right hand to produce it, or you can go for the presentation that it has completely vanished by placing it into your breast pocket—both approaches work well!
How to do coin magic: revealing the secrets and techniques of simple tricks (21–30)
A magic trick where the coin you’re holding passes through the back of your hand
This is a magic trick where a coin that should be firmly gripped in the hand passes through the hand and ends up resting on the back of it.
It’s not that you’re holding the coin in the other hand, and there’s only one coin involved—this is a technique to transfer that single coin.
How does it move? In the briefest instant, you turn the gripping hand vertically to create a small opening, let the coin slip through, and transfer it to the supporting hand.
Presentation is crucial, so practice not only moving the coin, but also your display and hand movements at the same time!
