Meir’s Muses
MyMagic eNewsletter #1,414
July 5, 2026
Before I get into today’s release I wanted to give you an update on some coin stuff. I received a few more of one of my favorite coin routines, the Japanese Edition of the Holesome Coins. This is the last batch I will be able to offer you for a long time. I used up all my Japanese Coins for the Coin Copier and the people who originally made my coins are nowhere to be found.
Now for today’s release. It comes from Argentina and it is a very clever and inexpensive routine using dice. Hernan Maccagno’s performance in the trailer is the exact one that is taught on the tutorial. Both the trailer and tutorial are in Spanish but the routine is so simple to follow and well taught you will have no trouble learning it.
►German Box Dice:
Although there are many routines and sequences possible with this clever gimmick, you are taught Hernan’s easy multiphase routine.
You begin by introducing a small box containing a red die. You toss out the die and amazingly a white die now appears in the previously empty box. Using the two dice and the box you perform a transposition where the red die and white die change places.
The final two phases have you make the white die penetrate through the table while inside the box. As a surprise ending you attempt to repeat the penetration, only this time the box penetrates the table instead of the die. Everything is examinable at the end.
Watch and buy: HERE
►Holesome Coins: Japanese Edition:
This is a new method and handling for Connie Haden’s original Silver And Two Copper Transposition and Pressley Guitar’s Copper, Silver, Brass routines. Although you can use this set to reproduce many of those sequences it has amazing advantages.
You may have noticed in the trailer than most of the coins can be shown on both sides, are examinable, do not use shells, are full-sized coins, both odd coins have holes in them and are of different sizes.
The basic routine involves three coins. A Japanese coin with a hole in it, a small African coin with a hole in it, and a Walking Liberty silver half dollar. The first phase begins with an impossible single coin transposition, followed by an even more impossible two for one coin transposition, with a final phase where the silver coin jumps back from your pocket, is used to vanish the two other coins, and can be handed out for examination.
Watch and buy: HERE
►Instant Ring:
The coin in bottle routine is a classic of magic that used to be one of the most popular routines performed by street performers around NYC. It is also a go-to-do routine for table hopping, and even on stage.
This deviously constructed, large, gimmicked finger ring allows it to collapse and enter a bottle through its neck in a similar way that the classic coin version works.
In addition to the ring in bottle routine, you are also taught some nice penetrations of borrowed rings through your ring while it is on a chain.
Watch and buy: HERE
►Real Touch:
Hernán’s Real Touch was a huge hit at the 2026 Blackpool convention. Almost every review video on the internet raved about it and showed him performing it.
It is a devious handheld gimmick that can be used to make people next to you feel as if you tapped them even though you never touched them. It is low-tech, with no electronics or invisible threads. It is easy to reset and is good for three uses each time you set it.
But the interesting thing is its other uses. Hernan shares his creative routines with it, such as making a musical instrument play a note, an impromptu book test, telekinetic movement of small objects, and more.
Watch and buy: HERE
►CCC: Monedas Chinas:
This is Hernán’s handling of the classic routine (inspired by Troy Hooser’s Charming Chinese Challenge) where three coins with holes in them are threaded on a ribbon and each one is magically pulled off the ribbon without destroying it. No extra coins or gimmicks are used. Everything is examinable at the beginning and the end.
This version can be performed while doing walkaround, formal close-up, and stand-up shows.
In addition to the routine, you will get three specially made thin washers which more deceptively hide how many coins you are holding when flashing from the sides and will make Hernan’s handling very easy and deceptive.
Watch and buy: HERE
►BACK IN STOCK:
Several people were asking me what I used to open the recent Jersey Magic Jam show. It is my own routine, but the main gimmick was the stage size Number 4 Envelope. I just replenished the inventory of both sizes.
►Number 4 Envelope:
This is an ingeniously constructed four-way-out envelope using an origami type fold that allows it to handle very cleanly and fairly.
The four compartments can be easily opened from the four sides of the envelope, and each side can hold one or more playing cards, or any prediction item that will fit inside.
Depending on which way you start to open the envelope you can hand it to your spectator to remove the card or small object.
Watch and buy: HERE
►MY LATEST RELEASE:
►Coin Copier:
This is an ingenious self-working coin box routine that Christian Scherer created in the 1980s. Since that time the manufacturing technology and the availability of the gimmicks used has advanced and the current version works perfectly.
The basic routine involves a metal box which is referred to as a tiny counterfeiting machine. You dump the four coins out of the box; a Japanese coin, a Swiss coin, a British coin and a US coin. Using the Japanese coin as a sample each coin is placed in the box and one at a time, as the box is waved over the Japanese coin, the coin inside instantly turns into a duplicate of the Japanese coin. This is repeated until all four coins have turned into Japanese coins and everything is examinable.
Watch and buy: HERE
►UPCOMING APPEARANCES:
►JULY 12: Spinnato’s Comedy Magic Show at Comix @ Mohegan Sun Casino in CT. Tickets: HERE
►AUGUST 2-5: Magic Live! in Las Vegas. Info: HERE
To view all my upcoming appearances, go: HERE
Stay happy, Meir
PS: I also just received a bunch of the Dual Position Eisenhower Dollar sets that I used in the Coin Cylinder Nouveau trailer. Most already sold. But I have two left: HERE
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…John Mulholland, Milton M. Smith (Magic In The Making, 1925)
