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Topic: Coin College?

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Posted by: jeebs9 (Sep 25, 2014 10:11AM)

I couldn't find one haha... Can anyone point me in the direction of a book (or DVD) for coins? That basically
brings the same things like Card College.
One more question... I'm looking to do coin in a borrowed beer bottle. Where the coin is put in the bottle and
given to the Spec to show that the coin can't come out. And then the coin is magical force out of the top of the
bottle. I'll post a video if anyone wants to see what I'm talking about.
Thank You
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Posted by: Bill Citino (Sep 25, 2014 10:24AM)

Off the top of my head there are a number of books and/or DVDs that could be considered... I assume
Bobo's is your basis? There's a ton of material in there from basic to advanced so you really can't lose.
In as far as other material is concerned, here's a short list that is by no mean exhaustive:
-Roth's Expert Coin Magic
-Kaufman's Coin Magic
-The New York Coin Magic Seminar DVD series... those could last you a while, so much great material in
there.
-Anything by Dave Neighbors, I've heard good things about his book The David Neighbor's Project Volume
1, but haven't had a chance to pick it up for myself.
-Eric Jones' Metal series has some great stuff on the later two DVDs after the basic one.
-Rubinstein's Encyclopedia of Coin Sleights (No tricks, but lots of great moves)
-Rubinstein's Knockout Coin Magic DVD (actually three volumes in one)
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-Anything by Curtis Kam.

-Anything by Kainoa Harbottle.
That's obviously a very short list and really only included all coin related material. There are plenty of others
out there that I didn't mention that would also be good places to look, like Troy Hooser's work among others.
One last question - considering Card College, are you looking for something that teaches moves and then
provides effects and routines that utilize those same moves? I'm not too sure there is anything out there
aside from Bobo's that does that for coin magic. I could be wrong though, it wouldn't be the first time.
Best of luck on your search.
-Bill
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Posted by: David Neighbors (Sep 25, 2014 11:52AM)

Hi Bill, Thanks man! Sounds Like a good List! And Jeebs9 If you don't Have Bobo's Go there 1 St. :) It's what
Both Roth And I Stared with! You Did not say If you had it or not?
And Bill I just happen To have a Copy Or 2 Left! :) Are You going to be at Super Session In OK city in Oct.,
Or 4 F. next year ??? Love to see you again!
And yea There Are ways to do that coin in the bottle!
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Posted by: jeebs9 (Sep 25, 2014 02:25PM)

Thanks Bill!!
I am kind of looking for something similar to Card College or Expert Tech at the Card Table Magic. But I'll
start with what you've suggested. Again thank.
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Yes if anyone could PM about the direction to coin in a bottle. I think that would be really nice. I have 2 skills
right now. And it's french drop and classic palm. I have been doing the muscle pass. But haven't got it to a
place where I feel good about it.
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Posted by: David Neighbors (Sep 25, 2014 03:51PM)

Yea sounds like The stranded handling That comes With the gaff when you buy It! Did you just see it or
What?
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Posted by: jeebs9 (Sep 25, 2014 04:07PM)

Wow... Guys thank you for pointing me in the direction of Bobo. This is huge!
But I recently saw a video of Dynamo I think. Where he borrows a bottle and a coin. Puts it inside. And the
spec tried to take it out. But can't.. Then he take the bottle back and then removes it with one huge tap. I
could see how it's kind of done. But I'd like some sort of reading material or DVD to watch. I think it would
great for bars.
Again thank you!
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Posted by: Eric Caldw ell (Sep 25, 2014 04:25PM)

Yeah, it seems everyone starts with Bobo. Roth, Neighbors, and Jones for sure started with it. Curtis Kam
and Kainoa Harbottle can reference it with such ease that I imagine it was a major part of their early learning,
as well. Don't discount it because it's hard to learn from like I did. I am just now realizing that skipping the
easier stuff and not putting in the time gets a man nowhere. I have spent three years trying to learn the latest
and greatest only to realize it's too hard for me.
On the note of learning material, Reel Magic Magazine is on demand for only $5 a month and has a course
on the basics of coin magic taught by Kainoa Harbottle. It is by no means complete yet, but is easily worth
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every penny.
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Posted by: Andy Young (Sep 25, 2014 04:27PM)

If you want a good book go with Al Schneider on Coins.

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Posted by: cperkins (Sep 25, 2014 05:16PM)

Hey, great suggestion, Eric Caldwell. Kainoa Harbottle's Coin Magic 101 over at Reel Magic Magazine is
outstanding. Kainoa is in fact a professioanal educator (higher education), and we know his mechanics with
coin magic are just impeccable. I wish he were around when I was starting! This segment alone is a steal at
$5 a month, but this on demand subscription has soooo much more.
By the way, Doc Eason goes live tonight at 8pm EST at Reel Magic Magazine.
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Posted by: David Neighbors (Sep 25, 2014 05:19PM)

Hay Eric,
Yea that's Why they say " You have got to learn To Walk before you can run! :)" It's like not being any good at
math And trying to learn Worm hole theory ! :) But when you see the Really COOL STUFF out there it hard to
not to want it!!! :) So I think Your on the Right track Now! Just keep on keeping on and one of these days your
get there! Rome was not built In a day! :)
And jeebs9 Just buy the gaff The handling should come with it! :)
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Posted by: kasper (Sep 25, 2014 05:23PM)

Nothing kick started me more and got me out there performing with coins than The Complete Introduction to
Coin Magic by Michael Ammar.
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Posted by: Eric Caldw ell (Sep 25, 2014 10:30PM)

It's true. The really cool stuff is so tantalizing.

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Posted by: David Neighbors (Sep 25, 2014 10:45PM)

But just Wait For it grass hopper! :) And I do have Have some Cool Easy stuff! :)
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Posted by: jeebs9 (Sep 26, 2014 11:10AM)

Again thank you guys!! I'll take a look into gaff.

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Posted by: Bill Citino (Sep 26, 2014 12:03PM)

Completed forgot about Ammar's Series. Also great stuff in there as well.
[quote]On Sep 25, 2014, David Neighbors wrote:
Hi Bill, Thanks man! Sounds Like a good List! And Jeebs9 If you don't Have Bobo's Go there 1 St. :) It's what
Both Roth And I Stared with! You Did not say If you had it or not?
And Bill I just happen To have a Copy Or 2 Left! :) Are You going to be at Super Session In OK city in Oct.,
Or 4 F. next year ??? Love to see you again!
And yea There Are ways to do that coin in the bottle! [/quote]
Thanks, Dave! I won't be at the Super Session. I'm going to do my best to be at 4F this year, I'm due since
I've missed the last few years for personal obligations. Hopefully, that should be plenty of time to save up for
the book; money is a bit tight right now.
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Hay you welcome Man! So ok hope to see You at 4.F.! :) And I should have some Books There! :)
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Posted by: jcrabtree2007 (Sep 27, 2014 02:39AM)

Roth's Expert Coin Magic was a great foundation for me.

I enjoyed the Metal Series from Eric Jones a lot too.
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Posted by: frankvomit (Sep 29, 2014 03:00PM)

Get the bobo dvd's as well

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Posted by: sirbrad (Apr 26, 2015 08:31PM)

Modern Coin Magic DVD with my buddy Ben Salinas is the best coin sleight DVD ever, and I had them all.
Best value as well as you can get it for under $20 and has a plethora of sleights and tricks. That is as close
to a "Coin College" that you will get. The others lsited are also great, but this one is my favorite of them all
and very informative for the price, and assumes you know nothing.
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Posted by: Michael Rubinstein (Apr 27, 2015 12:40AM)

I would echo what Bill said. The Encyclopedia of Coin Sleights has over 100 coin moves, many still found
only in that series. The NYCMS DVD series has 17 discs, over 34 hours, and over 225 routines on all
phases of coin magic from some of the top people in coin magic., including some of the names mentioned
already. Bill Wells has called it the video Bobo for the 21st century. The book Al Schneider on Coins was my
go to book after Bobo. Then Coinmagic, then the Roth book. Kainoa has material in books, on the NYCMS
DVD series, and elsewhere as mentioned. Curtis Kam has great material in his series, all well thought out
and presented, but it's not easy. Kainoa, Curtis, Roth, and myself also have downloadable lectures from
Penguin, and my own has some new stuff and some updated handlings.
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Posted by: sirbrad (Apr 27, 2015 01:50AM)

Here is the contents of the Bobo set.

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Modern Coin Magic - J.B. Bobo

4 DVD Set!
The Classic Course in Coin Magic is Here!
Watch - in wonder and amazement - the most incredible sleights and tricks with coins! Then, learn - step by
step from the performer's view - how you too can do these amazing coin moves! The tricks and sleights are
taught from the treasure trove of material in J.B. Bobo's classic treatise on coin magic.
This 4 DVD Set is OVERLOADED with more than 170 sleights and trick using coins!
Modern Coin Magic 4 DVD Set List of Effects Performed & Explained
DVD 1
Coin Concealments
Classic Palm
Edge Palm
Thumb Palm
Downs Palm
Finger Palm
Front Finger Hold
Back Palm
Back Finger Clip
Back Thumb Palm
Basic Technique
Bobo Switch
Utility Switch
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Utility Switch
One-Hand Switch
Shaw-Judah Coin Switch
Click Pass
Paul Morris Click Pass
Coin Flip
Change-Over Pass
Bottom Steal
Producing a Coin from a Spectator's Clothing
Taking Advantage of a Fumble 1 & 2
Coin Vanishes
Standard Vanish
Simple Vanish
Over the Top
Tunnel Vanish
Thumb Palm Vanish
Drop Vanish
Bobo Coin Vanish
Slide Vanish
Illusive Coin Pass
A Coin Vanish
Pinch Vanish
Gone
New Era Coin Go
Flyaway Coin
Behind the Back
French Drop (Le Tourniquet)
Reverse French Drop
Wrist Watch Vanish
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Pulse Trick
Cranium Vanish
Vanish with the Aid of a Handkerchief
Head and Tails Vanish
A Vanish for Several Coins
A Trio of Vanishes
Bonus Material:
Spellbound (Vernon)
Edge Grip
Curl Palm
Muscle Pass
French Drop Switch
Jimmy Wilson Vanish
Ramsey Subtlety
Kaps Subtlety
Spider Vanish
Tenkai Pinch
Kaps Palm to Palm Switch
Strike Vanish
DVD 2
Complete Coin Vanishes
The Bobo Complete Coin Vanish
Complete Thumb Palm Vanish
Knee-zy Vanish
Sucker Vanish
Pocket Vanish
With a Handkerchief - 1-3
In a Spectator's Pocket 1-3
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In a Spectator's Pocket 1-3

Bluff Vanish
Sucker Bluff Vanish
Coin Fold
Envelope Vanish
Quick Tricks
Through the Leg
Rubbed Through the Leg
Through the Pocket 1-3
Through the Hand 1-3
Through a Handkerchief 1-2
Double Penetration
Pants Leg Miracle
Half Dollar to Quarter
Charmed Coin
Coin of Metamorphosis
Coin to Key
Change for a Half
Much from Little
Smart Coin Trick
Impromptu Version
Switchover
Appearing Half
Coin Production from Two Cards
Touch of Midas
One to Four
One to Six
Cuffing
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Dr. E.M. Roberts Method

Louis Tannens Method
Art of Sleeving
Delayed Action Sleeving
Improved Method
Pumpkin Seed Vanish
Reverse Pumpkin Seed Vanish
Catapult
Judah Method
A Unique Sleeving Move
The Throw
Kort Method
Kirk Stiles Method
A Method of Sleeving one of
Several Coins
Dr. E. M. Roberts' Method
Loading
Tricks Using Sleeving
Migration
Transposition
Devaluation
Inflation
Transformation
Dime and Penny for the Wiseacre
A Novel Vanish and Reproduction
Splitting the Atom
Die to Dime
DVD 3
Coins Across
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Coins Across
Copper and Silver Transposition
Curious Nickel
Two Pennies on the Leg
The Inseparable Pair
Coins in the Teeth
Drop Pass
Hippity Hop Half
Rapid Transit
Winged Silver
Flying Eagles
Three and Three
Chinese Money Mystery
Four Coins to a Glass
Coin Classics
Coin Through a Ring
Silver or Copper Extraction
Expansion of Texture Expanded
Gadabout Coins
Three Coin Trick
Bent Penny
Ghost of a Coin
Coins Through the Table
Frank Garcia s Version
Magical Filtration of Four Half Dollars
The Sympathetic Coins
Changing Change
Coin Roll
Downs Coin Star
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Roll Down Flourish with Four Coins

Downs Eureka Pass & Routine
Rattle Box Routine
Thieves and heep
Just Pretend
Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver
Coins and Cards
DVD 4
Coin Boxes
Okito Coin Box
Coins Through Box and the Hand
Okito Box, Coin and Handkerchief
Routine with an Okito Coin Box and a Silk
Silver to Copper with the Okito Coin Box
George Boston Combination Coin Box
Coins Through Box & Hand
Copper & Silver Transition
German Coin Box
br>Shell and Folding Half
The Shell Half
Mystery with a Half Shell
How to Make Money
Three Questions
Coin Through a glass
Perfected Coin Through Handkerchief
25c and 50c Transposition
Peregrinating Halves
Coins Through the Table
Protean Coin
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Protean Coin
Sympathetic Coins
Modern Miser
Folding Half
Magic Mint
Biting a Piece from a Coin
Miser's Dream
T. Nelson Downs' Original Version
Elusive Pass
New Change-Over Palm
Downs' New Click Pass
Downs' New Fan Pass
Downs' Eureka Pass
Turnover with Multiple Coins
Miser's Dream Routine
Perpetual Coins
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Posted by: pieaddict (Apr 27, 2015 06:28AM)

I have just brought the mentioned modern coin magic 4 dvd set and its great. I'm new to coin magic and its
such a help.
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Posted by: Mb217 (May 17, 2015 11:45AM)

Yes, it is quite a set, a real treatise as to coin magic. Along with the famous book by Bobo, you would have
quite an extensive and well illustrated reference as to the art. :)
Welcome to coin magic, to the Caf, and to the great journey of it all. :)

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