Coins, mostly of ₹5 and ₹10 denominations, which were deposited by devotees as offerings through the years, were collected from the 25-foot-deep well of the Jalakandeswarar Temple in Vellore town.
Visitors to the temple have been depositing coins in the well built in March 1981. With most of the coins getting stuck in slush or on the gap between the bricks on the wall of the well, the temple authorities installed a nylon mesh net at a depth of 10 feet in the well a few years ago to secure the coins.
The coins were left intact for years until the temple authorities, recently, decided to recover them to retain the full depth of the temple well to prevent inundation or instances of flooding during the northeast monsoon. Water was pumped out from the well.
