The Melting Coin

"I don't know where my money goes! It just seems to melt away!" you'll hear people say. Show them this quick trick, and they'll really believe that money melts away.

A spectator holds a coin covered by a handkerchief and drops it into a glass of water held in his other hand.

When he takes the handkerchief away, the coin has vanished, and there is only water to be seen in the glass.

A glass or perspex disc, the same size as a penny.

3) When you place the real coin under the handkerchief, you secretly change it for the glass disc. It is the disc which the spectator drops into the water, and because it’s transparent, it’s invisible in the water.

Glass disc lies on left hand and is concealed by the handkerchief.

Right hand places the coin under handkerchief and drops it in left palm, picking up the glass disc and pushing this towards spectator.  When he grasps the disc through handkerchief, your left hand closes on coin and carries it away to pocket.