I'm wondering if anyone has this book. I have Sharpe's "Ponsin on Conjuring". I understand that Sharpe's book is the information that Hoffman didn't include in "Modern Magic".

For some research I'm doing, I'm wondering which coin effects in Ponsin's original book were included in Hoffman's Modern Magic. I need this for dating purposes.

If anyone can help, I appreciate it. Please feel free to pm me.

This is a horrid, horrid translation. Sharpe did not know beans about French, so he taught himself from a dictionary. He mistranslated a lot of the material. For example, he translated occulte physiques as "occult physics." It means a hidden mechanism.

If he made silly errors like that on simple terms, what did he do to the important ones?

The coin effects described in Ponsin are:

1) To pass a person's finger through a five franc piece
2) The subtraction of coins from a person's hand
3) The tight-rope walk of a coin on the edge of a sword
4) The flying coins.

The first three are fairly evident from their titles. The last one is the flight of a marked coin into a spectator's pocket. It involves a switch.

These are not exactly earth-shattering illusions.

They were once.