Well money (well due; divisional coins; lucky penny)

A former levy for the maintenance of a public well used to supply drinking water, including compensation for the fountain master (water supply operator), who in many places was also responsible for the cleanliness of the system, especially for checking the quality of the water and removing debris and garbage. – Circulating small-denomination chump change coins (colloquially known in English as peanuts, chicken feed and chump change), formerly sometimes called cat money. – In particular also coins, which are thrown by tourists with the left hand over the right shoulder into the Trevi fountain in Rome as luck bringers (lucky charm). The money in almost all currencies of the world (2013: about 500,000 euros!) fished out there regularly by the responsible fountain master flows to the Italian Caritas (Roman Catholic relief, development and social service organization working in over two hundred states and territories worldwide). – See baking money, fire money, scoop money, school money, gate money, weighing money, washhouse money, water money.

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