Besides Magic Monte (which gets my vote for #1 Royal magic trick ever), this would be the best trick ever to come out of Royal Magic.   So I guess it is second best.   I learned it twenty years ago, and I still fool people (including magicians) with it.

A matchbox is opened and three matches removed. These are formed into a triangle on the table. A penny is placed in the triangle, and the closed matchbox is placed on top of the matches and penny. When the box is lifted, the penny is gone. The drawer is opened, and the penny is inside.

An absolutley marvelous gimmick leaves you completely clean at the end -- fooling those expecting a penny to be stuck to the bottom of the box.   Trust me!   This is good!    If you want to shrink the penny, instead of making it vanish, you can get the teeny tiny pennies from me (see elsewhere in TMGS Money Magic section --  Set of 8 Teeny Pennies).

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