Effects which are impromptu are always popular, especially when they are a little out of the ordinary and very clean from the start to the finish. While not startling, this coin routine is simple of execution and appears like real magic.

Borrow a quarter but have the spectator note the date before giving it to you. It is openly folded in the cloth of your right trouser leg above the knee, and after the donor has felt it there, the fold is dropped and the coin has vanished whereupon it is produced from the trouser pocket. Once more it is done, and after being felt vanishes with your hands obviously empty. This time the spectator himself reaches into your pocket and takes out the coin which is checked as his own.

Vanishing moves for coins are rarely original these days, but the routining of this effect is what makes it a clever addition to impromptu repertoires. It is only necessary to have a quarter in the right trouser pocket before starting. Borrow a quarter and have the date noted. Lay it on the trouser leg, just over the quarter in the pocket, and draw up a fold over it. If you will try this you will find that the right thumb can be under this coin (both thumbs are inside the fold and the fingers are outside) and as the fingers of both hands press this fold up over the coin, the right thumb can draw the coin to the right, into the right fingers, while their tips hold the edge of the fold in place. The spectator is asked to feel the coin, but really feels the coin in the trouser pocket. The fold is allowed to drop and the coin has disappeared, the right hand going directly to the pocket where it leaves the coin in hand and brings out the one which has been there. Immediately upon the producing of this coin, you say that you will try again. Start to make the same fold but accidentally (?) drop the quarter. Pick it up with the right hand, but at this point it so happens that your right foot is close and in the picking up motion the coin is dropped into the right trouser cuff. The hand comes up as if holding the coin and the left fingers make the fold as before, while you ask the spectator to feel the coin again. He does, and once more feels the quarter in the pocket. This time, when the vanish is made apparent, the hands are seen absolutely empty, and when the spectator reaches into your pocket, he finds his own quarter !