Yank Hoe (born Ercole Castagnone c. 1864 – unknown) was an Italian magician known for performing the trick "Card through Cigarette" and inventing "Sympathetic Coins" also known as "Coins-n-Cards".
He began his professional magic career in 1883, when he became a manager of an unidentified Japanese juggling troupe.
In 1886, he worked with Nadine Osborne also known as Omene who was a London girl that acted as his assistant until 1892.
John Northern Hilliard recorded some of Hoe's tricks in Thomas Nelson Downs' The Art of Magic.
[6] Hoe's trick "Sympathetic Coins" was published in The Art of Magic which later evolve into the modern variation known as Matrix, developed by Al Schneider in 1960.