One of the easiest, yet most astounding, coin tricks! Every magician should have this, it's that good!
Change a stack of nickels into a stack of dimes! Or make the stack of nickels disappear! Or pass the nickels right through a solid table! The precision-made gimmick does all the work for you! Many different effects are possible, and the instructions for a number of effects are included.
Made of brass for years of use. For the same trick that also allows you to "shrink" the nickels into tiny ones, see Shrinking Nickels.
Walter Gibson introduced the concept of this trick.
Prior to introduction of the "nickel", five-cent pieces were made of silver and were called half-dimes. After the Civil War, silver was in short supply, so the coin was changed to a copper/nickel alloy. Thus the term "nickel" came to be used.
As of December 2006, the cost of the metal used to make a nickel coin is now more than 5 cents. It costs more to make a nickel than what the nickel is worth!
Nickels To Dimes
