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 This appeared in Will de Seive's //These Card Tricks//, 1936, p. 8, under the title "Contact Card," before being published in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13140/Greater+Magic/534|Greater Magic]]//, 1938, p. 478.
-Daniel Rhod reports in //Notes on the History of Cardsharping in France//, 2011, p. 24, that using a coin to mark a card with an embossing, used as a cheating method, was described by Augustin Cavaillé in his card sharping treatise, //Les filouteries du jeu//, 1875. Rhod doesn't make clear how the card was used: as a tactile mark or as a means to force or control a cut.
+Daniel Rhod reports that, in the 1800s, card cheats used a coin to emboss a mark on a card. It was described by Augustin Cavaillé in his card sharping treatise, //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1875-Cavaille-Les-Filouteries-du-jeu.pdf|Les filouteries du jeu]]//, 1875, p. 78. The description is quite brief: //"La marque à la pièce: Le grec opère une pression sur la carte au moyen d’une pièce d’or ou d’argent à bords dentelés."// (The coin mark: The Greek presses the card with a gold or silver coin with denticulate edges.) The gold or silver coins are believed to have been a twenty-franc Louis d'or and a five-franc piece. The Louis d'or was near the size of a U.S. quarter; five-franc piece was a bit smaller than a U.S. silver dollar. Both coins had the high denticulate rim that Cavaillé specified. This rim would produce a distinct ring when pressed into a card. It is likely that only such a ring, and not a fully embossed disk-shape, was desired for card cheating. This ring could be seen in proper lighting, but its value was more likely that it could be easily felt while dealing, like a punched card. It is also conceivable that the embossed ring in the card was used like a bridge or crimp, for a controlled cut or for nullifying a cut. This use is closer to that of Will de Seive's locator card. Unfortunately, Cavaillé's terse description of the card gives no hint of its use.
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