CHINESE COINS WITH HOLES SERIES

The routine has been carefully polished by Jay Wang and Jimmy Fan. The magician shows four ancient coins, and the coin holes move from the center of the coins to the edge, jump from one coin to another, or even duplicate the holes over an entire coin.

CHINESE COINS WITH HOLES SERIES

After studying it for a long time, we thought the routine could be more complete, practical, and interesting, so the Crazy Chinese Coins was born.Ĭrazy Chinese Coins is a series of moving hole effects using the coin holes of ancient Chinese coins. Magicians are eager to create various moving hole gaffs, and there can be dozens of versions of the most popular card moving hole, not to mention other versions using credit cards, wooden sticks, keys, or any other object that can be drilled or has a hole.Īrtisan Coin & Jimmy Fan are particularly interested in the coin moving hole effect, which dates back to the 1980s. Simply put, it is an effect where a magician's finger drags a small hole on an object, much like dragging an icon on a touch screen, and the hole magically moves to a different position. The Moving Hole Effect has been popular in the magic community for decades almost everyone is familiar with it. Mooney and his team are recommending the road builders avoid the site and that further study be done there.Crazy Chinese Coins, a series of Coin Moving Hole Effects, is available on TCC Now! The most recent find will be held with the Yukon archeological collection. An even older coin was found in 1993 by Beaver Creek, which was dated between 14. The coins are more common along the coast, but only three have been found in Yukon.Ī matrix archeologist found another one in the Kwanlin Dun region this past summer. The coins could have been used as decoration or sewn in layers like roofing shingles onto hide shirts to protect warriors from arrows. Alternatively, First Nations might have made the extra holes to attach them to clothing,' said Mooney. Coins were sometimes nailed to a gate, door or ridgepole for good luck. 'The extra holes could have been made in China.

The coin is different from others of its type because it has four additional small holes above each corner of the central square. Mooney said the location of the find, on a bluff overlooking a river and creek source, is a likely place for a traveller to have rested or camped between Dyea and Fort Selkirk. The Tlingit tightly controlled direct trade with the interior First Nations through the Chilkoot Pass, which is one of the few entry points through the Coastal Mountains to the interior. This trade happened throughout the 17th and 18th centuries and possibly as early as the 15th century. It says the coin adds to the body of evidence that the Chinese market connected with Yukon First Nations through Russian and coastal Tlingit trade.Įcofor Consulting archeologist Kirby Booker made the find of a lifetime when she dug up the coin. Heritage Canada says the coin was minted between 16. Evidence Chinese market connected with Yukon First Nations Russian traders coming in and they were collecting sea otter pelts and some of the inland furs, and they would trade things like glass beads, silks and coins,' he said. 'The first documented accounts of foreigners getting into Tlingit territory were in the mid-1700s. Mooney believes there’s a logical explanation for how the coin found its way deep into the Yukon interior hundreds of years ago. It was the coin - the neatest discovery I've ever been part of,' Mooney said. 'I was less than a metre from our archeologist Kirby Booker when she turned over the first shovel of topsoil and I caught sight of something dangling from the turf. James Mooney, from Ecofor Consulting Ltd., and his team were doing the heritage impact assessment for the proposed mining road. The Chinese coin, which is round with a square hole in the centre, helps fill in the blanks on some pre-Gold Rush history. The find came in July as a team checked the route of a proposed mining road for the Western Copper and Gold Corporation’s planned Casino gold mine. Archeologists have unearthed a coin more than 300 years old northwest of Carmacks, Yukon, which provides a link between 17th-century China, Russian traders and First Nations people.

Chinese coins with holes