Coin magic

In a different type of performance setting, a close-up coin magician (or 'coin worker') will use a large video projector so the audience can see the magic on a big screen.

Coin effects include productions, vanishes, transformations, transpositions, teleportations, penetrations, restorations, levitations and mental magic -- some are combined in a single routine.

Producing a memorable mystery requires significant skill in presenting the effect and utilizing misdirection to distract the audience from the secret of the gimmick.

All three novels follow in part or wholly the career of a fictitious magician, Magnus Eisengrim, who was abducted as a boy by a traveling circus and learned his craft while concealed in a papier-mâché automaton.

In Stephen King's Dark Tower series of novels, the gunslinger Roland Deschain uses the coin roll, albeit substituting a bullet, to induce a hypnotic state in those concentrating on the object's movement across his knuckles.