Nickels To Dimes

One of the easiest, yet most astounding, coin tricks! Every magician should have the Nickels To Dimes Coin Trick, 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.

• Nickels To Dimes trick (brass cap, brass gimmick)
• printed instructions

 

Use this trick along with the Shrinking Nickels trick. First, use the Nickels To Dimes to change nickels to dimes, then use the Shrinking Nickels as a follow-up, changing nickels to miniature coins.

 

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.

 

According to a March 12, 2012 article in the Wall Street Journal, it now costs the U.S. Treasury Department 11.2 cents to manufacture a nickel coin.