A popular and highly visual coin effect that will really have them talking! One of the most famous coin tricks there is- this is the one everyone asks for! As seen on the FOX TV show Secrets of Street Magicians Finally Revealed!
Performer can take a borrowed cigarette (or a pencil or a rolled up dollar bill) and push it right through the center of a quarter!
This is an easy trick, but because it involves using a cigarette, we recommend this trick (if a cigarette is used) for adults only. However, it can also be performed with a drinking straw, a rolled up dollar bill, or any other rod that fits, and would therefore be appropriate for Ages 13 to 17 as well.
What you'll get:
Coin is made from a real U.S. quarter.
This is the spring method model.
More replacement rubber bands are available from MagicTricks.com.
You supply the regular cigarette.
It is strongly recommended that you carry and store this coin separately from regular money, in a pouch or a Coin Carrier (available from MagicTricks.com) so that you don't spend it by mistake.
Performance Ideas
Combine this effect with a Vanishing Cigarette using a Thumb Tip. Borrow a cigarette from your spectator. First, push the cigarette thru this coin. You can even light the cigarette while it is thru the coin, or light it after you pull it out. Then vanish the lit cigarette in the thumb tip. Doing magic with a borrowed cigarette, especially when it vanishes at the end, is a polite and fun way to tell someone "please don't smoke". Handy in restaurant situations or anywhere that someone's smoke is bothering others.
History and Trivia
The Cigarette Thru Quarter trick was invented by Pressley Guitar.
Is it illegal to use real US coins to make magic tricks?
According to the U.S. Treasury F.A.Q. at http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/coins/portraits.shtml#q13, 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."
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Cigarette Thru Quarter
