$1.35 Trick

Works easily every time!

Astounding coin magic! Place two half dollars, a quarter and a dime in your hand. Close your hand, and remove a half dollar. Your spectator thinks you still have 85 cents in coins in your hand- but when you open your hand, IT'S EMPTY! The other coins have vanished!

Precision-made gimmicked coins do all the work for you! The gimmicked coins in this set are made from real U.S. coins. Replacement Bang Rings are available from MagicTricks.com.

You'll get everything you need:

• gimmicked coin set
• bang release ring
• printed instructions

Replacement Bang Rings are available from MagicTricks.com.

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Use this trick as a counting game. If you are performing for children, make it a fun way to learn to add the value of coins together. If you are performing for adults, it can be a humorous way to get the better of a "smarty pants"!

 

According to the U.S. Treasury F.A.Q., the answer is- No. It is only illegal to alter a US coin with the intention of spending it as if it were a coin of a different value.

From the website: "Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who 'fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States.' This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it [in a monetary transaction in trade for goods or services] to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the U.S. Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent."