A legendary gimmicked coin- this is the one you saw performed by David Blaine on his first TV special!

The effect is simple- but really startling! Take a "bite" out of a real quarter. Yes, put it up to your lips and take a bite. A piece of the quarter is GONE! Then gently blow on the coin- and the quarter is instantly whole again! What??!!

This miracle of magic is astonishing- and astonishingly easy to do. The coin will do all the work for you- it even shows the bite mark! This trick is truly self-working. Best of all, you can repeat the trick immediately, as many times as you want. No re-setting the trick, no sleight of hand. Just incredible responses from your spectators!

And you can even do the Coin in the Bottle trick with this one! One minute the coin is in your hand- and in the blink of an eye, the coin is INSIDE a soda or beer bottle!

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Is it illegal to use real US coins to make magic tricks?

According to the U.S. Treasury F.A.Q., 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."