A Florin Spun

I purchased this on a whim, ignoring the price tag, admittedly because of author’s name and the high regard I hold his Mental Mysteries book. I thought, certainly there would be something special here. The book is beautiful and well written as expected. The content is essentially a treatise to the coin toss and rigging a coin flip. As a novelty book on this subject it’s very nice, but with a $50 price tag, the material doesn’t hold up, I’m sorry to say. With larger pages and different formatting, this book could easily be reduced to pamphlet and it is easily read in under an hour.
The primary flip taught will take a lot of practice and knack. This isn’t an issue except for the fact I can’t seem to imagine an application, taught in the book or otherwise, where I would rely on it with any certainty, doing it a multitude of times in performance. Or if an effect requires just one or two flips, I can’t imagine just not switching for a double sided coin. The spin section is a clever principle with far more reliability and less practice, however it’s fairly likely you already know the principle, as I did, if you’ve ever delved into the subject of a controlled coin toss.
I may recommend this book if it was appropriately priced, but as it stands, your dollar can go A LOT further. As a matter of fact, shell out an extra $10 and get Hector’s Mental Mysteries book and you will be rewarded with a plethora more of applicable material and insights.

I love this book. It teaches a concept I was familiar with already but in a much clearer and complete way than what I’d learned previously.

I love material that teaches, for want of a better phrase ‘real magic’. That is, it teaches a skill, not a trick, that very few people possess or even understand as being possible, and thus appears to have a magical quality. And that skill can then be integrated into the creation of any number of tricks.

Just a really nice deep-dive into a skill that has more uses than initially apparent. For a real-world worker, this is fantastic!

I feel fairly confident affirming that if you're interested in learning the ins and outs of controlling a coin flip, then this is THE book you need to read. "Hector" does an excellent job of explaining how to do it, as well as outlining many applications of the skill. The book is an entertaining, albeit short, read that will take an afternoon to finish but a lifetime to master (or not... I got pretty good at the controlled flip in a few hours). The controlled spin is much harder, if only because it only works consistently with certain makes of coins that are not readily available where I am.

Regardless, if you're the type of person who wants to learn how to flip a coin and have it land on whichever side you want (even after it's already been flipped into the air) then this book is well worth the price tag.