The performer borrows a bank note from a spectator and explains that sometimes banks weigh piles of notes, just like they do with coins. Trouble is, sometimes the weight is not quite right and so they add a secret ‘make weight’ to redress the balance.

With genuinely empty hands the note is taken and folded. Reaching with fingertips into the folds, the magician slowly extracts a small coin! Here’s the make weight! Of course, you should never tamper with currency and so the coin is inserted back into the note which is immediately opened out and returned to its owner leaving the performer’s hands completely empty again.

This effect is supplied as an E-Routine, which is a downloadable pdf text file.