New York Coin Magic

To purchase the new New York Coin Magic DVDs Volumes 11-13 individually, click on the appropriate photo above. OR, you can order all three and SAVE! All three DVDs for just $100.00 plus Shipping & Handling. To order as a set, scroll down the page!

PLEASE note that all purchases received before January 27, 2010 will be shipped between Jan 20-27, but any order received after January 27, 2007 won't be shipped until Feb 24, 2010-- due to being on a magic lecture tour.

The New York Coin Guys, David ROTH, Dr. Michael RUBINSTEIN, and Mike GALLO, have set the bar pretty high with their New York Coin Magic Seminar DVD series. The first 10 volumes contained over 26 hours of practical, non stop, no filler coin magic, with over 140 routines, new moves, techniques, presentations, lessons, and discussions! This year, though, the New York Coin Guys have set the bar EVEN HIGHER, with their latest set of DVD''s, on coin magic for WORKERS. These three volumes, WORKERS, BACK TO WORKERS, and WORKERS UNITED, are PACKED with practical, usable coin magic for all occasions, easy enough for the average magician, and also used by working pros! Let's take a look at the contents of each:

Volume 11, WORKERS, contains two hours of over 13 incredible routines by todays top coin workers. Dr. Michael Rubinstein leads off with three workers from his vast repertoire. The Wishing Well is a wonderful, 4 coin production, with a story that reels in your audience. Tallahassee Jumping Coins is a three coin non gaffed coins across, with the last coin impossibly traveling to the spectator's closed fist! Deja Vu Coin Vanish is a three coin vanish done twice, the second being instantaneous!

Mike Gallo is up next with two incredible routines. Okito Rocks will blow away your spectators as coins travel and change under impossible circumstances. The World Famous Two Coin Trick will prove that two coins are never enough!

All of these are good, but the biggest news is that on this DVD, David Roth gives up a Secret he has kept quiet for over 15 years! He explains this secret, a useful tool for all stand up coin workers, in three routines: Coins to Cup, Chop Stick Wild Coin, and the Three Coin Vanish. This technique fried the guys at the last Seminar, and all were sworn to secrecy until the release of these DVD's!!

Rounding out the main section are contributions from our seminar guests. Deep Palms Coins Across is offered by Eric DeCamps. Doug Brewer fools the guys all the time with Two Coin Classic. Scotty York attaches a nickel to his head at his bar with Nickel Head, and now you can do it as well! Scott Robinson explains why all coin magic is Not the same with Differences. Rounding out this section is Bill Citino's wonderful opener, Money Doesn't Grow on Trees.

The BONUS section contains two more worker routines by Gallo, a discussion of Stealth palm by Rubinstein, and further insight into Roth's Secret. But that's not all, there are two more volumes!!

Volume 12 (BACK TO WORKERS), contains two hours of even more incredible material for the hobbyist and pro alike!
Dr. Michael Rubinstein offers Time For Change, a purse spellbound routine with a surprise climax. Fuzzy Math takes the gadabout coins idea to a new level. Silver Extraction is so practical, it will make you take your old gaff out of the drawer, dust it off, and perform a winner!

Mike Gallo comes to bat next, with two more amazing routines. Two Copper One Silver offers a new way to perform the classic routine, leaving you totally clean. Okito Transit, shows once again Mike's exceptional versatility with the Okito box, as he uses it in ways that will blow you away.

David Roth continues with his amazing coin magic. He demonstrates and explains the McCarthy Hankerchief vanish. proving once again that there is gold hidden in the old books. Rip-O is also a forgotten trick for most magicians, but David's brilliant presentation brings it up to speed, and will quickly find its way back into the Worker's repertoire!

Our special guests have contributed even MORE wonderful effects for this volume. Doug Brewer teaches Recaptivated, a wonderful routine to produce coins from your pen cap. Eric DeCamps explains another Worker Coins across. Icon Scotty York presents and explains one of his favorite bar tricks, Nickel Through the hand - Almost. Scott Robinson teaches Loose Change, a quickie with a penny and nickel that EVERYONE will do after watching it! Host Marc DeSouza closes out the set with Copper Silver My Way, a practical copper silver transposition with a lovely premise and the engaging DeSouza touch.

But there's more! Our BONUS section contains a discussion of click passes by Rubinstein, two MORE eye opening bonus effects by Gallo, a performance of the Chanin TV coin production by Roth, and TWO MORE bonus effects by Doug Brewer right out of his professional repertoire!

Two volumes weren't enough for the New York Coin guys, so they went and produced a THIRD volume! Volume 13 (BACK TO WORKERS), offers yet ANOTHER TWO PLUS HOURS of 15 practical, hard hitting coin magic used by pros, but easy enough for the average close up magician. Dr. Michael Rubinstein starts off this volume with Copper Silver Brass, a five phase routine that uses no gaffs, and no extra coins! Copper Silver Transposition is the classic effect, made easy to perform with the Rubinstein slide move. The Purse and Glass is Rubinstein's take on Roth's classic showpiece, now made into a stand up worker effect for ALL performing situations!

Mike Gallo shows his take on the Cap and Pence, but steals the show with his rendition of Milton Kort's Four from Two Equals. David Roth follows with his Flurry, giving all the details you need to perform this one coin classic.

Not to be undone, our contributors have gone all out to give you the FINEST coin magic around! Eric DeCamps struts his stuff with his Three Coins and a Ring. Doug Brewer goes Trekkie with Transporter Malfunction. Scotty York sneaks in Bill Swindle. Scott Robinson uses two spectators for his In the Hands CopSilBrass. Marc DeSouza shows some new ideas with his Coins Across, and Dan Watkins reveals a NEW idea, a progressive wild coin that was a BIG hit with the guys at the Seminar, called The Coin Chalice

But wait, there's more!! Our BONUS section finishes the series with two more bonus killer effects by Mike Gallo (does he ever run out of new stuff?), a discussion of coin magic by Roth, a bonus routine by Rubinstein, a performance by Scotty York, and a table discussion of WORKER effects by the fab three.

To purchase the new New York Coin Magic DVDs Volumes 8-10 individually, click on the appropriate photo above. OR, you can order all three and SAVE! All three DVDs for just $100.00 plus Shipping & Handling. Read the below description and order below!

In these trying economic times, magicians are looking for more - more good routines, more moves, more theory, and above all, more value! The New York Coin guys, David Roth, Dr. Michael Rubinstein, and Mike Gallo, have heard your cries! They have created their own coin stimulus package, by cramming six and a half hours of more coin magic, into three new volumes of their classic New York Coin Magic Seminar series, called More, Much More, and Still More!! that's right, more of everything - more coins across, more copper silver, more productions, vanishes, and penetrations, more special guests, and more! Let's look at the contents of each.
Volume eight (More) contains two hours of more great magic from the New York Coin Guys. David Roth performs for the FIRST time on DVD his Blank Coin Routine, and follows with his rendition of his classic Stonehenge routine. Dr. Rubinstein performs a version of Nest of Boxes that was the hit of his last trip to Japan, He follows by showing a polarized plastic disc that when rubbed, becomes a real coin. Smileys is a very commercial coin effect where a sad face drawn on a coin changes and changes, bringing a smile to both the coin AND the spectator. The best part, though, is yet to come, as Rubinstein reveals for the first time on DVD his Stealth palm, sure to find a place in every coin man's repertoire!

Not to be undone, Mike Gallo gives you more great magic, with a Gaddabout coins routine that has a dynamite ending that you will use! Quarter Transpo is a strange transposition of 4 quarters and 4 half dollars. Childhood memories is Ramsay's Coins and Cylinder routine with a story that gives a reason for your props, and makes the routine even more spectator friendly.

The section ends with special guest Vic Trabucco presenting a very practical coins across routine.
But wait, there's more! The Bonus section starts off with a clever Okito Box routine by Mike Gallo, and a discussion of the breakout move by David Roth. Rubinstein performs a routine called Smileys Jr.,based on the effect presented elsewhere on the DVD. There is a rare 1983 performance from the late Geoff Latta doing his classic CopSilBrass, followed by the first of three sections by special guest Al Schneider on coin theory. The Bonus section ends with a discussion by Schneider on a new way to do the Pop Out Move!

But wait, there's another two hours in Much More, the title of volume 9! David Roth performs and explains his own, unpublished version of the Nest of Boxes, with the classic Roth touch, and for the first time on any DVD, performs his Deep Back Clip Coins Across that should give thrills for the guys looking for knuckle busting stuff. Dr. Michael Rubinstein makes a signed coin travel to underneath a business card three times, with his classic Triple Coin to Card, and follows with his one of his favorite all time routines, Quadra Coin Reverse Matrix. Stealth Spellbound is an uber clean triple spellbound using stealth palm, and coins mysteriously appear and disappear into the air with Stealth Hanging Coins.

Mike Gallo is up next, with a self working stunner called Thieves and Sheep. Differences is a copper silver routine where coins move around and around. He finishes with an eye popping routine called Bust Up Bucks, based on a Dr. Sawa idea, where a dollar breaks into 2 half dollars and then into 4 quarters. Special guest Vic Trabucco is back with a stand up coin vanish, and special guest Scotty York makes his New York Coin Magic Seminar debut with his famous Copper Silver Transposition, with the patter that other magicians have tried to prevent him from revealing, as its just too good!!

The Bonus section is bursting with much more! Gallo goes into detail on a new Okito box routine, and Roth discusses the proper way to do the spidergrip vanish. Rubinstein makes sure you understand the R.O.P.S. move, and explains a NEW application for it. Special Guest Al Schneider presents the second part of his coin theory, and newcomer Bill Citino offers a brilliant hanging coins routine. Special guest Scotty York finishes up with a trick he always does at the bar, called Nickle Saver.

Wait, there's Still More, with almost two and a half hours in volume 10! David Roth shows that size does matter with Fugitive Coins. You will learn all about coin boxes and moves with Roth's in depth discussion on the Okito Box. Dr. Rubinstein updates a handling of an old effect with Magnetic Coins III. Ultra Reverse Matrix was supposed to be an entry in Tannens New Stars of Magic series in the 80's, but now its yours. Rubinstein again showcases Stealth palm with Stealth Copper Silver Transposition, but you can see just how special Stealth palm can be with the Stealth Showcase, consisting of productions, a coins across, and a gaddabout coins routine with a killer ending!

Mike Gallo goes wild with his Okito Coin Box routine, and pennies become pennies in Nonsense. The biggest reaction of all the DVD effects, however, comes with Old Faithful, a routine that finds its roots in a Roth effect, but goes the other way! Vic Trabucco is up next with another practical coin vanish, and the legendary Scotty York hits a homer with his A Sweet Coin Trick, where a signed coin is found in a sugar packet.

The Bonus section contains the third installment of Al Schneider on Coins, where he puts his theories to work with some amazing coin vanishes. Scotty York showcases his Two Copper one Silver routine in the Numismatist. Vic Trabucco performs Glass Transit, which ends with a vanish in the classic Trabucco style. Guest host Marc DeSouza gives up his award winning routine, A Matter of Time, and the section ends with an in depth panel discussion by the New York Coin guys on the Retention Pass.

The New York Coin Guys want you to have a special opportunity to be the first to have them! So, we are offering a special deal found only on our website. The DVD's retail for $35 each, but we are offering a website special! We are offering all three DVD's ( volume 8, 9, and 10) to you at the cost of only $100 for all three, plus $8 P&H in the US, $15 P&H outside the USA. (be sure to add NYS sales tax if you are from New York). What more could you ask for!

Videos Reviewed

By Dustin Stinett

New York Coin Magic Seminar (Volumes 8, 9, 10)

M. Gallo, D. Roth, M. Rubinstein $100 (3-disc set)

The Coin Champions are at it again, packing three DVDs virtually to the brim with fine coin magic and very useful information.

In case you don’t know, the “Coin Champions” are Mike Gallo, David Roth, and Dr. Michael Rubinstein. For the last couple of years they have been releasing DVDs from their New York Coin Magic Seminar events. These DVDs include live and studio segments, special guests and, in the first seven discs, they focused on specific effects such as “Coins Across,” “Copper/Silver,” etc. The material is a combination of items that have been published in the past (print and video) and new items. These three new discs keep to this format with one exception: Instead of focusing on a single category of effect, they feature what Jeopardy fans call “Potpourri.” This is all the stuff—and there is a lot of it—that couldn’t fit into the first seven discs. There is so much, in fact, that you should go to their website, www.NewYorkCoinMagic.net, to see the entire list of 50 items—over six hours worth—found on this collection of discs (a couple are performance only). I will, however, touch on a few of the items that caught my eye and think will catch yours.

Volume 8, titled “More,” has 10 main items and six bonus items. It starts off with a nice handling of the newer (brass) versions of the old “Nest of Boxes” by Dr. Rubinstein. I particularly like the premise he brings in to explain this odd prop. In “Counterfeit Coin,” Dr. Rubinstein premiers a new concealment of his devise—the Stealth Palm—that becomes the primary move of several effects found on subsequent discs. David Roth’s classic “Stonehenge” plot is a great version of “Matrix” wherein the coins vanish from the hands—using a complete vanish—and appear under picture postcards. The effect finishes with a big, but logical, kicker. “4 Ways Out” is a wonderful routine by Mike Gallo using an Okito Box. The explanation—which was filmed live during a breakout session—is a lesson in working with a coin box. Al Schneider makes an appearance going into some theory on coin magic and then revisits his “Pop-Up Move” which he has refined since it was first published in his seminal book, Al Schneider on Coins (1975). And there is a wonderful piece of video of the late Geoff Latta from 1983 performing his remarkable “CopSilBrass” routine that—in case you didn’t know—did not use the familiar gaff set. (This is performance only, but you can find the explanation in Richard Kaufman’s CoinMagic [1981].)

“Much More” is the title of Volume 9 and it has 11 main items and six bonus items. One of those bonus items is special guest Scotty York performing and explaining “Nickel Saver.” This is great bar magic—direct and easy to follow. It is a version of the “Cap and Pence” using nickels, a Lifesaver candy, and a dollar bill rolled into a tube. “Rub Through” is a very nifty item from special guest Vic Trabucco. Mike Gallo goes an extra mile with more on the Okito Box and also explains a virtually self-working version of “Thieves and Sheep” by his late father, Lou Gallo. David Roth shares his handling and premise for those “Nest of Boxes” seen on Volume 8 and in a breakout session goes in depth on the Spidergrip Vanish. Dr. Rubinstein explains the R.O.P.S. move (Retention Open Palm Steal) in detail. Al Schneider makes another appearance with more theoretical analysis. Whether or not you agree with him—and I do not—that magic is a “technology” and “not an art,” anything that gets people to think more about their magic is a good thing.

Volume 10, “Still More,” has 11 main selections and five bonus items. Special guest (and the host of the event) Marc DeSouza performs and explains his wonderful “Matter of Time.” This is a performance piece with two surprise endings and is proof that magic secrets are—as Penn Jillette has said—all about the gaffer tape. “Ultra Reverse Matrix” is, as Dr. Rubinstein says, a very clean version of this now classic effect. “Okito Goes Wild” is Mike Gallo’s nice Okito Box version of the “Wild Coin” plot. David Roth gets into the Okito act with a nice segment on the box (with focus on the slot box). Al Schneider returns and puts theory into practice with a discussion on coin vanishes and he also performs and explains “Split Silver” from his book Al Schneider on Close-Up (1980). The jewel of this disc—and perhaps all three—is the half-hour long Panel Discussion (by the three “New York Coin Guys” as they are also known) on the Retention Vanish. Each man shows and explains in depth their version—and they are each quite different—of this key sleight.

This collection of discs is high on value to price ratio. There is a ton of good to great material here that will keep coin enthusiasts busy for a long time. I highly recommend them.

● New York Coin Magic Seminar: Volumes 8, 9, 10 ● Gallo, Roth, Rubinstein ● Approx 120 mins. each ● Available from www.NewYorkCoinMagic.net ● Coin Champions, c/o/Dr. Michael Rubinstein, 3616 Henry Hudson Pkwy. East, Suite 3BN, Riverdale, N.Y. 10463 USA ● $35 each or $100 for 3-disc set. Include $5 each or $8 for 3-disc set for domestic s&h. $8 each/$15 3-disc set for international s&h.