The William W. Larsen Memorial Library

Rubinstein Coin Magic

Author/Editor: Rubinstein, Dr. Michael

w/dust jacket

FOREWORD BY BILL WELLS
INTRODUCTION

PART ONE – SLEIGHTS, MOVES, AND TECHNIQUES
CHAPTER ONE – R.O.P.S. TECHNIQUE
1. R.O.P.S. Move
2. R.O.P.S. New Theory Retention Pass
3. R.O.P.S. Click Pass
4. R.O.P.S. Double Click Pass

CHAPTER TWO – VANISHES, SHUTTLES PASSES, LOADS, AND CHANGEOVER PALMS
1. Variation Retention Pass
        Variation One
        Variation Two
2. The Bronx Tale
        Technique to Silently Classic Palm a Stack of Coins
3. Miracle One Hand Coin Vanish
4. Roll-Down Retention Pass
5. Fingertip Shuttle Pass
6. Fingertip Shuttle-Pass Display
7. Palm-Down Fingertip Shuttle Pass
8. Fingertip Load
9. Tap Load
10. Spellbound Change Palm
11. Spellbound Changeover-Palm Variation and Display
12. Nowhere Palm Changeover Palm
13. Rubinstein Put-back Move
        Used as a Continuous Production

CHAPTER THREE – CLICK PASSES
Introduction
1. Rubinstein Click Pass
2. Air Drop Click Pass
        Ed Marlo’s Holding Position
3. Turnover Double Click Pass
4. Snap Down Double Click Pass
5. Nowhere Palm Click Pass
6. Nowhere Palm Double Click Pass
7. Fan Double Click Pass
8. Reverse Double Click Pass
        Al Schneider Classic Vanish

CHAPTER FOUR – SPELLBOUND MOVES
1. Impromptu Touch Change
        Nail Grip
2. The Wave Change
        From Finger Palm
        As a Production and Vanish
3. The Rubinstein Steal Back
4. Flip-Over Change
        Dai Vernon Changeover Palm
5. The Soft Change
6. The Strike Change
7. The Rub Change
8. Spellbound 9333
9. The Blow Change
        Fred Kaps Variation of Victor’s Color Change
        Tenkai Pinch Recovery
10. The Cartwheel Change
        Sit-down Version
        Stand-up Version
11. Spellbound Times Three
        Blue Phantom Sequence
12. Triple E.G. Spell
        Edge-Grip Display

CHAPTER FIVE – FALSE COUNT AND USEFUL MOVES
1. The PH (Pseudo Himber) Count
2. The Fidget Count
        Rubinstein Fidget Move
3. The R.O.P.S. Discrepancy Count
        Discrepancy Steal
4. The Combination Count
5. The Click Steal Back
6. The Clip Steal Back
7. Purse-Palm Subtlety
8. Fingertip Utility Switch
        Rubinstein Version
        Mike Gallo Version
9. Angle-Finger Palm Switch
10. Multi-Coin Angle-Palm Switch
11. The Slide Move
        Slide-in Phase
        One Finger Variation
        Side-out Phase
12. Crossed Arms Subtlety
        Transfer to Nowhere Palm
13. The Rubinstein Subtlety
        Tout Toss Switch

CHAPTER SIX – STEALTH PALM
1. Getting into Stealth Palm
        Method One
        Method Two
2. Stealth-Palm Display Position
3. Stealth-Rest Position
4. Stealth Toss

CHAPTER SEVEN – ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES
1. Matting
        Transfer to Semi Back-Palm
2. Pocket Management
        Pocket Manager

PART TWO – ROUTINES
CHAPTER EIGHT – COPPER-SILVER
1. The Purse and Glass
        Rubinstein Rattle Purse
        Roll-Down Retention Pass Variation
        Purse Coin Dump
2. Magical Change Purse (Purse, No Glass)
3. The Substitution Trunk Mystery
4. Stand Up Sucker Copper-Silver Routine
5. Copper or Silver Extraction
6. Copper Penetration
        Transfer from Fingertip Rest to J.W. Grip
7. Handy Copper-Silver Transposition
        Magician’s Choice
        J.W. Grip to Fingertip Switch
        Pistol Grip Switch
        Side Grip
8. Cup of Copper Silver
        Fake Insertion
        The Envelope Substitution
        The Envelope Steal
9. Stealth Copper-Silver Transpostion
10. Ungimmicked Copper-Silver-Brass
        Thumb-Palm Switch
        Pseudo Purse Load
        Partial Switch
        J.W. Grip to Nowhere Palm
        Retention of One Coin from a Group Using Finger Palm
        Ramsay Subtlety
11. Oil and Water
        Mike Gallo Subtlety
12. Matchbox Treasury Redux
        Matchbox Load

CHAPTER NINE – WILD COIN
1. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Introduction
2. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Patter
3. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Show Version
        Drop Switch
        Ross Bertram Color Change Move and Concealment
        Geoff Latta Fingertip Twirl
        Modified Bobo Switch
       Edward Victor’s Ramsay-style Cole Change (Move F)
        Matting varation
        Al Schneider Snap-back Technique
4. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Impromptu Version
5. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Cup Version
6. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Purse Version
7. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Original Handling
        Sol Stone Slap-Change Variation
8. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Multi Gold Version
        The Sack Addition
        Drop-Switch Modification for Multiple Coins
9. Sliding Wild Coin
        Fingertip Shuttle-Pass Display Variation

CHAPTER TEN – SPELLBOUND ROUTINES
1. Thoughts on Spellbound
2. Ultimate Silver Lint
        Derek Dingle Sucker Change
        Ellis Stanyon Thumb-Palm Color Change
3. The Chocolate Coin
4. Imagine a Coin
        Fingertip Half Shuttle Pass
        Ken Krenzel Steal Back
        Edward Victor Thumb-Palm Color Change (Move H)
5. Four-Way Spellbound
        Separation Changeover Palm
6. Shattered Spellbound
        Shake and Slide Move
        Spread Finger Subtlety Variation
7. Chinese Explosion
        The Separation Flip

CHAPTER ELEVEN – COINS THROUGH THE TABLE
1. Rubinstein Coins Through the Table
        Retention of One Coin from a Group Using Fingertip Rest
        Al Goshman Lapping Move
2. Standup Coins Through the Table
        Harvey Rosenthal Subtle Coin Steal
        Spread Finger Subtlety
        Pick up Pinch
        Optical Take
        Ross Bertram Lapping Move
3. CSB Coins Through the Table
        Pointing Heel-Clip Steal
4. Giant Four Coins through the Table

CHAPTER TWELVE – COINS ACROSS
1. Tallahassee Jumping Coins
        Retention of One Coin from a Fan
        Toss Load
2. Impossible Four Coin Trick 1
        Angle Palm Gesture One
        Angle Palm Gesture Two
        Clasped Hands Position
        Technique for Pulling a Coin Out of Angle Palm
        Modified Shuttle Pass
        Substitution Addition
3. Impossible Four Coin Trick II
        Fingertip Shuttle Pass Varation
4. Long Term Short Term
5. Retro Fly
        Fan Separation Shuttle
        Substitution Addition Variation
        French Pop Curtis Kam Variation
        Pocket Ditch
        Utility Switch
6. The Specciolini Brothers
        Secret Add On
7. Shell CSB Coins Across

CHAPTER THIRTEEN – COIN PRODUCTIONS AND VANISHES
1. Triple Play
        One-Behind Principle
        Milton Kort Drop-Vanish Click Pass
2. Magical Money Rap
3. The Wishing Well
        The Tunnel Load
4. Vegas Math
        Modified Roth Shuttle Pass
5. Fuzzy Math
6. Bologna Debut
        The Gallo Pitch (Lou Gallo)
        Flying Shuttle Pass
7. Stealth Hanging Coins
        Modified Fingertip Shuttle-Pass Display
        Flash Production
8. Stealth Showcase
9. Deja vu Coin Vanish
10. Tri-Coin
        Milton Kort Drop-Vanish Click Pass Variation
11. Flash Vanish

CHAPTER FOURTEEN – COINS AND CARDS
1. Voodoo Revelation
        Hand-to-Hand Turnover
2. Voodoo Revelation SOH Version
3. Two Coin Monte (Two Card Reverse Matrix)
        Tony Montovani Ploy
        Paul Harris Steal
        David Roth Shuttle Pass
        Semi Back-Palm Card Load
        Paul Gertner Scoop Move
4. Quadra Coin Reverse Matrix
        Ed Marlo Steal
        No Pick-up Move
        Double Steal
        Ed Marlo Scoop Vanish
        Card Lever Load
5. Ultra Reverse Matrix
        Ross Bertram Under Finger Transfer
6. The Mentalist
        Easy Switch
        The Peek
7. Triple Coin to Card
        Twist Substitution
        Turnover Slide Switch
        Scoop Switch
        Walter Gibson Spider Grip Vanish Rubinstein Variation
8. Case Solved

CHAPTER FIFTEEN – GAFFED COINS
1. Silver Extraction
2. The Double-Faced Coin Routine
        Flip Turnover
        Single Coin Turnover
        Sol Stone Flip-Over-View Variation
3. The Bent Coin Routine
        Palm-to-Palm Transfer
        Pocket Ditch
4. Magnetic Coins
        Snap Move
        Fingertip Muscle Pass Variation
5. Thumb Through Coin
        Geoff Latta Transfer
6. Signed Bill Through Coin
        Thumb Palm Switch Method One
        Offbeat Switch Modification
        Display Position
7. Smileys
8. Smileys Jr.
9. Fusion
        Offbeat Switch
        Jack Chanin Changeover Palm
        Thumb Palm Switch Method Two
10. Three Quarters of a Trick
        Retention of One Coin from a Group at the Fingertips
        Standard Bobo Switch
11. Key Fobulous II
12. Goodbye, Hello, Now Change
        Combination False Count
        Geoff Latta / Scott Weiser Heel Clip Steal
        Eric Jones Tap Bluff Vanish
        Toss Click Pass Variation

CHAPTER SIXTEEN – MISCELLANEOUS
1. The Purse Routine
        The Purse Count
        Kring Pass Variation
2. The Blank Coin Routine
3. The Mystery of the Chinese Coin
        The Purse Maneuver
4. The Black Hole
5. Mint Condition
6. Nest of Boxes
7. Coin in Coin Roll
8. Coins to Glass
        Mike Gallo Modified Finger Palm
9. Polarized Plastic
10. Time for Change
11. The Counterfeit Coin
12. Nest of Envelopes
13. Nest of Envelopes Method Two
14. The Sympathy Card

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN – COINS AND POKER CHIPS
1. May the Force Be with You
2. Poker Chip Spellbound
        The Flip Around
        The Flip Change
3. 3-D Printing
4. My Coin Collection
5. Conviction Prediction
6. Conviction Prediction, and Some Magishin’
7. The Famous Three Coin Trick
8. Three Coin Monte
        Aleix Badet Flip-Over-View Move

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN – FRIENDS SECTION
1. Introduction
2. Mike Gallo – I Got It Covered
        A Poor Man’s Roll Down
        Imp Pass
3. Nathan Kranzo – Shuzbut Coins
Kranzo Changeover Palm
        Finger Palm Vanish
4. Jean Emmanuel Francis – Aegean Coins
        Francis Multiple Coin Palm Change
5. Moritz Mueller – Slide of Hand Vanish
        Transfer to Back Thumb-Palm
        As a Complete Vanish
        Complete Vanish in Short Sleeves
        Balance Palm
6. Bill Citino – Coins Walking Wildly Ahead
        Display Shuttle Pass
        Toss Click Pass
        Removing a Coin from a Shell
        Charlie Justice De-shell Move
        Ed Marlo Friction Pass
        Al Baker Steal
7. Tom Gagnon – Shell-Acted
        Tiddlywinks Change
8. Marc DeSouza – Cylinder and Coins for Three Friends
        Spider Vanish Variation
9. Eric Roumestan – Touch, No Touch
        David Neighbors / Eric Roumestan Back-Palming Technique
        Fingertip Han Ping Chien
        Downs Back-Palming Technique
        Marlo Back-Palming Technique
10. Brenden Wolf – Differential
        Wolf Color Change Variation
        Curtis Kam Inferential Copper-Silver Move
        Kainoa Harbottle Steeplechase Shuttle Pass
        The Spin Change
11. Lawrens Godon – Three-ality Routine
        Harada Hold
        Dynamic Back Thumb-Palm Technique
        Direct Production from Back Thumb-Palm
        Back Thumb-Palm Click Pass
        Ron MacMillan Back Thumb-Palm Retrieval
        Ryutaro Masuo Back Drop Move
        David Williamson / Richard Kaufman Retention Clip Vanish
12. Tri Ryuzaki – Synchronized Spellbound
        Ryuzaki Dust Production
        The Pop Out Change
        Ken Krenzel Retention Vanish
        Arthur Chavaudret Fake Flick Vanish
        Ponta the Smith Wave Change Variation
13. Giacomo Bertini – Coinmeleon II
14. Etienne Lorenceau – Faustus Chameleon Skin Purse
        Mike Gallo Purse Frame Production
        Tim Feher Purse Frame Drop
        Joe Rindfleisch Retention of Vision Vanish
        Nabil Murday Move
        Tim Feher Pinched Rotation Move
15. Danny Goldsmith – The Frenetic Change
16. Leonard Rangel – Three Flight
        Dan Fleshman Rollover Production
        Juan Tamariz Flying Click Pass Variation
        Al Schneider Twirl Load Variation
        Geoff Latta Ultimate Han Ping Chien
        David Roth Deep Palm Tenkai Pennies
        Paul Harris Load Under a Spectator’s Hand
17. Doug Brewer – Left-Handed Coins in a Box
        Frank Thompson One Hand Okito Box Sequence
18. John Carey – Simple Positive Negative
19. Miguel Angel Gea – Coin Munch
        Geoff Latta Pull Back Vanish
        Click Clack Click Pass
20. Bill Wisch – The Elbow Servante
        Loading the Elbow Crease
        Recovery
21. Jay Wang – Purse-onal Coin Production
        Himber Visual Retention Coin Vanish (Himber Vanish)
        L’Homme Masque Load
        Delayed Retention Click Pass
        Tap Bluff Vanish
22. Karen Dorangrichia – WOW Magic Chicken
23. David Roth – The Roth Blank Coin Routine
        Purse Grip
        Break Off Move
        Malini Subtlety
        Palm Change
        Clout Toss Switch

PART THREE – BONUS SECTION
CHAPTER NINETEEN – PUNS FOR ANY OCCASION
1. Introduction
2. Medical
3. Professional
4. Animals
5. Sports
6. Home
7. Car and Travel
8. Food
9. Personal
10. Bars and Drinks
11. Miscellaneous

CHAPTER TWENTY – CURTAIN CALL
1. Chinese Explosion II
2. Quarter Steal
3. Baseball Miser’s Dream
        Transfer from J.W. Grip to the Fingertips

FINAL THOUGHTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR