Goldfinger: Stand Up Coin Mysteries by John McLachlan

Develop your coin magic skills and presentations.

John McLachlan, and six of his magic colleagues in Toronto, present a 112 page eBook of coin magic to help you enchant and entertain. They begin with a dozen relatively easy Cool Moves which can be used almost immediately for impromptu quick effects at the coffee shop or in small groups. These are also used as building blocks for the more than a dozen Performance Pieces. (It is assumed the reader knows basic coin moves such as palming and your time is not wasted by repeating what most magicians know.) There are, however, some astonishing moves described in detail. Learn from the styles of the seven performers who contributed to the book and who teach you their methods for Three Fly with regular silver dollars, a Hopping Halfs type effect with ordinary coins, an unbelievable coin change, a scenario about the type of acrobats used in Bond films, a nightmare in which you are constantly one coin short and a compelling finish as dreamland approaches as well as other mysteries.

1st edition 2012, 112 pages.

(All moves and routines by John McLachlan unless noted differently.)

Table of Contents

1. COOL MOVES

    

6. Victory Vanish
10. Victory Coin Switch
11. Victory Click Pass (Two methods)
13. Thumb Down Coin Production
16. Push-off Shuttle Pass
17. Shuttle Touchdown
19. Tip-up Coin Switch
22. Twirl Change
23. (James Alan) A Pretty Spellbound Change
25. (Luiz Castro) Speed Vanish
26. (Luiz Castro) Castro Switch

    PERFORMANCE PIECES

     

31. Two Coins in the Hand
35. As Time Goes By – Words for Two Coins
37. Coin through Glass
42. Parkour Monsieur
50. All that Glitters
59. (James Alan) Start and Finish with Silver Dollars
65. (Ariel Frailich) The Five-Second Coin Trick
71. (David Peck) Magneto
76. (David Peck) The Center Folds
80. (Luiz Castro) Three Fly
83. (Luiz Castro) Three Coin Change
90. (Mysterion) Charon's Change
93. (Phil Pivnik) One Coin Short
98. As Dreamland Approaches
112. Bibliography