Later Day Tricks
A. Roterberg
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Coin and Sword
THE performer takes a borrowed dollar and placing it with its rim on the very edge of a sword or large knife, balances it on the latter, then causing it to roll, without falling off, from one end of the sword to the other. The coin is then returned to its owner.
My astute reader has of course guessed that it is necessary to exchange the borrowed coin for a prepared dollar, which really consists of three coins, a dollar, a nickel five cent piece and a half dollar which are stuck together by means of adhesive wax. The five cent piece, which is attached to the center of the dollar and which is the middle piece, form a groove by the aid of which the coin may be balanced and caused to freely roll back and forth on the sword. It is almost unnecessary to state that during the trick only the unprepared side of the dollar is seen by the audience, who have no suspicion of the presence of the other two coins on the back of the latter. Seen from a little distance which "lends enchantment to the view," the feat is a very pretty one and may be nicely combined with other coin tricks.
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