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Two borrowed hats represent a farmer’s barns.	This is a classic of conjuring using coins or paper balls. It is easy but baffling!  Practice it well.
Five pennies represent five sheep and two more pennies are the robbers.
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Magic Secret #28
The Homing Coins

Another classic of coin conjuring, made famous years ago by Yank Hoe, an Italian magician in U.S.A. Four coins, at the corners of a handkerchief, are covered in turn by two cards. One by one, the coins move invisibly to one corner. At the finish of the trick, there are four coins together at one corner. Nobody saw them move — How Did They Get There?
SECRET – A fifth coin is secretly held in the right hand finger-palm position. The cards are held in this manner when covering the coins. Right-hand card always cover the finger-palmed coin.
1) Cards are laid over coins B & C. Right hand takes coin from D and takes it under table, pretending to push it through table under corner B, but really palming it. 2) Cards are lifted to show 2 coins at B. palmed coin is held under right card (hands omitted in sketch, for clarity). 3) Cards are laid over A & B and palmed coin is left at B. Right hand takes coin C under table and palms it as in move 1.
4) Cards are lifted, showing 3 coins now at B. Palmed coin is behind right hand card. 5) Both cards are placed on corner B, leaving palmed coin there. Left hand takes coin from A and put it under table to “push it through. Actually,  left hand allows coin to slide down trousers leg into trouser turn-up. 6) So that when cards are lifted, all four coins have gathered at corner B – and your hands are empty.

Magic Secret #29 Coin Passing

Many tricks involve the passing of objects invisibly from one place to another. In this classic of magic, 3 coins pass one at a time from one hand to the other – unseen.

Three coins lie in a row at each side of the table. What the audience doesn't know is that you have a seventh coin in your right hand

1) Pick up coins 1 and 2 singly and throw  into left hand.  Pick up coin 3 and throw that into left hand, at same time releasing palmed coin, and  throwing both coins into left hand. Close left hand tightly.

2) Palm Coin 4 when you pick it up with right hand, then pick up coins 5 and 6 and hold in fingers.

3) Lay down coins 1,2,3 and the secret seventh coin from left hand, and coins 5 & 6 from right hand, retaining coin 4 in right palm.

4) Repeat move No. 1 secretly throwing palmed coin No. 4, along with another coin, into left hand. Continue to pick up coins from left side and put into left hand, which is then closed tightly again.

5) Pick up coin 5 from right side and palm it.  Now pick up coin 6 in fingers.

6) Lay out coins from each hand, retaining coin 5 palmed in right.

7) Again pick up coins at left and throw one at a time into left hand, secretly adding the palmed coin (No. 5).

8) In picking up coin 6 from right with right hand, secretly slide it off table edge into your lap. Close right hand as though it held this coin.

9) Lay out all coins from left hand.

10) Now turn both hands over casually. The three coins from the right side have passed to the left invisibly and you have no spare coins left in either hand.

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Magic Secret #30 Bank Balance

	1) Your friend places a few pennies on a plate and counts them aloud (nine cents, let say in this case).
2) He then “spends” some of the pennies (say 4 cents) by dropping them in a small envelope (“The Shop”) which is then sealed up.
3) The remainder are poured  into a large envelope (“The Bank”) which is sealed firmly and guarded by a member of the audience.
4) The small envelope is placed on the plate and is burnt.  The four “spent” pennies have vanished.
5) The person guarding the “Bank” then tears open the large envelope and tips the coins out. The original sum (9 cents) is there, plus an extra penny – interest.
See Secret #31 for Secret Solution

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Magic Secret #31 Or–How to Spend Your Money –And Yet Keep It

	Fill in the cavity inside the rim with cardboard, leaving a channel big enough to hold five pennies.
	Glue a piece of shiny white card over the rim to his the five pennies in the channel.
	When the pennies on the plate are tipped into the envelope, the secretly concealed coins go with them. And by burning the small envelope, all the evidence of the crime is destroyed.
	The coins are allowed to slide out into the hand while the big envelope is being sealed.  Attention is directed to the big envelope while the magician is “stealing” the “spent” pennies!

Magic Secret #32 The Melting Coin

"I don't know where my money goes! It just seems to melt away!" you'll hear people say. Show them this quick trick, and they'll really believe that money melts away.

A spectator holds a coin covered by a handkerchief and drops it into a glass of water held in his other hand.

When he takes the handkerchief away, the coin has vanished, and there is only water to be seen in the glass.

A glass or perspex disc, the same size as a penny.

3) When you place the real coin under the handkerchief, you secretly change it for the glass disc. It is the disc which the spectator drops into the water, and because it’s transparent, it’s invisible in the water.

Glass disc lies on left hand and is concealed by the handkerchief.

Right hand places the coin under handkerchief and drops it in left palm, picking up the glass disc and pushing this towards spectator.  When he grasps the disc through handkerchief, your left hand closes on coin and carries it away to pocket.

Magic Secret #33 Cash With Care

Use this vanish of a coin in tricks where you later find the coin in an unusual place! But although it’s been so carefully wrapped up, the coin vanishes from the paper package.

The coin goes into this folded square of paper.

The sides of the folded paper are now folded behind to make a packet which is open at the top.

The top of the packed is folded back over the other folds.  Packet is still open at top. Press round coin to make impression stand out boldly.

Packet is taken in right hand, so that coin falls out of open top into hand, where it is palmed.

Left hand takes empty packet, leaving coin palmed in right hand. The packet can now be torn up or burned, and the coin produced from some other place.