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The Origins of Wonder

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coin:foil_coin [2018/03/04 19:39] – ↷ Page name changed from coin:foil_vanish to coin:foil_coin denisbehrcoin:foil_coin [2018/03/12 00:27] (current) – year correction denisbehr
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 W. H. J Shaw described a novel method to vanish a coin, titled "The Dissolving Half Dollar", in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/24735/Magic+up+to+date+or+Shaw+s+magical+instructor/65|Magic Up to Date; or, Shaw's Magical Instructor]]//, 1896, p. 61. It required a dummy coin, made by pressing tin foil against the half dollar to create a fragile shell. This shell would be passed off as a regular coin. To effect the vanish, the magician would simply crush the foil into a small ball, allowing for a much easier concealment. W. H. J Shaw described a novel method to vanish a coin, titled "The Dissolving Half Dollar", in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/24735/Magic+up+to+date+or+Shaw+s+magical+instructor/65|Magic Up to Date; or, Shaw's Magical Instructor]]//, 1896, p. 61. It required a dummy coin, made by pressing tin foil against the half dollar to create a fragile shell. This shell would be passed off as a regular coin. To effect the vanish, the magician would simply crush the foil into a small ball, allowing for a much easier concealment.
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 The same prop was also used in a different context. The foil shell was used openly and explicitly as part of a coin change, titled "The Fragile Coin", anonymously contributed to //The Wizards Annual//, 1913, np. The same prop was also used in a different context. The foil shell was used openly and explicitly as part of a coin change, titled "The Fragile Coin", anonymously contributed to //The Wizards Annual//, 1913, np.
  
-Around 1987, Robert Frederico used a fake half dollar made of head and tail foil impressions to fabricate a lightweight coin that could be levitated by invisible thread: [[https://askalexander.org/display/37096/Genii/6|"The Ultimate Floating Half-Dollar"]]; see ad in Genii, Vol. 51 No. 9, March 1988, p. 582. Frederico released a book called //Disposable Coins// for guests of the 1997 New York Magic Symposium, containing ideas using foil coins.+Around 1987, Robert Frederico used a fake half dollar made of head and tail foil impressions to fabricate a lightweight coin that could be levitated by invisible thread: [[https://askalexander.org/display/37096/Genii/6|"The Ultimate Floating Half-Dollar"]]; see ad in Genii, Vol. 51 No. 9, March 1988, p. 582. Frederico released a self-published booklet called //Disposable Coins// for guests of the 1987 New York Magic Symposium, containing ideas using foil coins.
  
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