| the difference was like night and day. It really was cleaner. Therefore, I continued to |
| play with it. Eventually it became clear to me that this method of transferring the coin |
| was very clean. Nevertheless, I had little confidence that my fellow magicians would |
| There is an interesting aside here. In showing the move to people over the years, many |
| have complained that the move is very difficult to do. The reason is that I conceived it |
| while I was sitting on a bed. In this position, your hands are reaching down and the |
| palms of the hands can be comfortably palm up. The motions required to pick a coin |
| up and put the coin down are easy. However, the same motions are quite difficult |
| while sitting at a table. There, one must twist one’s wrists in order to accomplish |
| the same moves with the same clarity. |
| Moving on, I felt I had solved the initial awkward card manipulation. Perhaps I could |
| improve the effect more by eliminating the need to vanish the coins during the first two |
| coin transfers. With what I had at this point I could cover the four coins and use |
| vanishes on the first two coins and the third would be real, magic. However, I wanted |
| something better. I played with using a card to help vanish the coin. Something like, |
| pick up a card covering a coin, use the card to pick up the coin and apparently dump |
| the coin into the hand while actually retaining it against the card. Therefore, I was |
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