Cyril Amenti's Coin

The most straightforward signed coin transposition between you and two spectators. The most powerful and memorable magic is the one that happens in the hands of the audience. A half dollar is examined or borrowed and initialed on each side by two spectators. One spectator holds a purse from the start, the other is given the signed coin and closes the hand. He sees the signed coin in his hand before closing it. At that moment, the magic begins: The magician makes a quarter dollar transpose with the signed coin… now the spectator opens the hand, he has the quarter, and you have the signed coin. But that's NOT ALL! Now you point to the second spectator holding the purse, and making a gesture, the signed coin vanishes from you hand only to reappear inside the purse or wallet. The spectator HIMSELF removes the coin and checks the "Signatures"!

Perhaps the leading post-Harnoncourt cellist in the early music movement, Christophe Coin has developed a particular interest in music of late eighteenth century Vienna. He began studying the cello as a child in Caen, then enrolled in the Paris Conservatory, where his principal teacher was André Navarra. After taking first prize in a conservatory competition, Coin moved to Vienna where, at the Academy for Music, he became a disciple of Nikolaus Harnoncourt and performed in the latter's Concentus Musicus.