Coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand.
At Magdalen Bridge , Dennis went ashore for more champagne, which passed from hand to hand as we negotiated the lower reaches of the river.
Cambridge , says a contemporary, who made not himself a disciple of Mr. Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes, and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines.