How to Use Flipper Coins for Magic Coin Tricks

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Part of the video series: How to Do Magic Coin Tricks

Summary: Learn the secrets of using flipper coins to perform magic coin trick illusions in this free magic lesson video.

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Wayne Phelps Close-up magician and comic Wayne Phelps has been entertaining audiences around the United States for more than seven years. He is a member of both the Academ... read more

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How to Use Flipper Coins for Magic Coin Tricks

My name is Wayne Phelps. I’m a professional magician, and this is expertvillage.com. I want to show you guys a really cool gimmick coin effect with a flipper coin. It’s one of my favorite effects. Check this out. All you need to do is effect is a simple coin purse. In this coin purse, I have a pair of really cool Kennedy half dollars. Now these half dollars have a really interesting effect. If I take them and toss it into my other hand, I can pull it out one of those half dollars invisibly. Rub it against your lapel and cause the coin to invisibly travel from your hand to your lapel. You don’t believe me. There’s one, put that down on the table, up here on my lapel magically is the other. How was that done? Have you got me figured out yet? If you are suspecting, I’m using two coins from the start you’re actually halfway right. I’m technically using two and a half coins. The real coins stays up here in my lapel pocket the entire time. The flipper coin is used to create the illusion of two coins. A flipper coin is a special gimmick coin that has a hinge in the back that opens up and allows me to show the coin as if it was two real coins. When I toss the coin from hand to hand it allows the hinge to close and it happens so fast that the spectators don’t even see it. They think there are still two coins there. You pull out one coin invisibly, rub it on your lapel pocket and now the work has been done. The rest is just acting. For the flipper coin I tried to keep my finger across the brake so you don’t see the crease in the coin when I show the coin from the back, show it from the front and lay it down on the table. I come up here produce the real coin which I immediately hand out for an investigation while this coin is being passed around and I’m drawing attention to the real coin I grab the flipper coin, put it in my pocket, replace it with a real coin that I also hand out for inspection, that way the flipper coin is never in the hands of the spectators. When the spectators are done they have seen two real coins and they are left with absolutely no way figuring out how I did that effect. That’s a flipper effect.

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