Currency bill tracking

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There are a number of websites that track migrations of banknotes, just like ornithologists track migrations of birds by ringing them. All these sites can track currency among the users of that website. A user may register a bill by entering its serial number, and if someone else has already registered the bill, then the "route" of the bill can be displayed.

Some sites encourage marking before spending, others don't. This usually depends on the laws of the country issuing the currency.

Some of the websites for bill tracking:

• Where's George? is the first site to start this kind of activity. It was created by Hank Eskin to track US dollars. The site has inspired several other ones, see the list of external links.
• Canadian Money Tracker, started in 1999, for CAD (Canada)
• Where's Willy for CAD (Canada)
• WhereHaveIBeen for Canadian and American currency
• EuroBillTracker was started on January 1, 2002 to track Euro banknotes (the largest of the Euro tracking sites)
• Eurotracer also studies the systems of serial numbers and printer codes of Euro banknotes and the distribution of Euro coins with their different national faces.
• MyEuro was started before 2002 for tracking German Mark, later it was changed to a Euro-tracking site
• The Money Tracker started in 2006 for tracking Australian Dollars, and uniquely tracks banknotes using an interactive map of Australia

The act of tracking a $20 bill was the binding theme between various stories in the film Twenty Bucks.

A similar scheme is BookCrossing, which tracks the movement of secondhand books which are marked and then "released into the wild".

See Also:Bookcrossing, Geocaching, Letterboxing, Postcrossing

External links

• "Where's George?" -- Tracking US dollar bills
• Canadian Money Tracker
• EuroBillTracker -- Tracking Euro notes
• MyEuro -- Tracking Euro notes
• EuroTracer -- Tracking Euro notes
• "Where's Willy?" -- Tracking Canadian dollar bills
• Dosh Tracker -- British Pound
• FindLizzy.co.uk -- British Pound
• OSATSU.NET -- Japanese Yen Osatsu means banknote in Japanese.
• SEK -- Swedish Kronor
• Danish Kroner
• Cashfollow -- Swiss Franc
• The Money Tracker -- Tracks Australian notes