Currency bill tracking

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Currency bill tracking is the process (usually facilitated by any one of a number of websites set up for the purpose) of tracking the movements of banknotes, similar to how ornithologists track migrations of birds by ringing them. Currency bill tracking 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 bill tracking sites encourage marking before spending, whereas others do not. This usually depends on the laws of the country issuing the currency.

Contents 1 Popular currency bill tracking websites 2 References 3 In popular culture 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Popular currency bill tracking websites

Some of the most popular websites for bill tracking include the following:

• Where's George?, started in December 1998, was the first site to start a currency bill tracking project. It was created by Hank Eskin to track US dollars. The site has led to the creation of many other bill tracking sites. ^[1]

• Where's Willy? for CAD (Canada) ^[2]

• Canadian Money Tracker, started in 1999, for CAD (Canada)

• NoteTrace, started in 2006 tracking using Google maps interface.

• EuroBillTracker was started on January 1, 2002 to track euro banknotes. It is the largest of the euro tracking sites.

• EuroTracer, the second-largest euro-tracking site, also studies the systems of serial numbers and printer codes of euro banknotes and the distribution of euro coins with their different national faces.

• FollowMyEuro is the third site for tracking Euro's.

• myEurobill, tracking euro banknotes using Google maps interface. Developed with Ruby on Rails.

• The Money Tracker started in 2006 for tracking Australian Dollars, and uniquely tracks banknotes using an interactive map of Australia

• DoshTracker in the United Kingdom (Currently no longer available.)

• OSATSU.NET, started in 2000, for Japanese yen. closed in 2007. (Osatsu (お札, Osatsu^?) means banknote in Japanese.)

• Where's my Bucks started tracking South African rands in 2006

• RUR Tracker started tracking Russian rubles in 2006

• Kövesd a pénzed started tracking Hungarian forints in 2006

• Where's Renmenbi tracks Chinese Renmenbi (or Yuan) in China

• TrackGandhi tracks Indian Rupee, started in India in 2007

• SEK-Tracker tracks Swedish crowns since 2004

• Fiver Finder tracks UK Five Pound Notes ^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ The Where's George Website
2. ^ The Where's Willy Website
3. ^ http://www.fiverfinder.co.uk/

[edit] In popular culture

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

A similar scheme to currency bill tracking - and said to be inspired by it - is BookCrossing, which tracks the movement of secondhand books which are marked and then "released into the wild".

[edit] See also

• Where's George?
• Bookcrossing
• Geocaching
• Letterboxing
• Postcrossing

[edit] External links

• Where's George? -- Tracking US dollar bills
• Where's Willy? -- Tracking Canadian dollar bills
• NoteTrace -- British Pound
• myEurobill -- Tracking euro notes
• EuroBillTracker -- Tracking euro notes
• EuroTracer -- Tracking euro notes
• FollowMyEuro -- Tracking euro notes
• MyEuroNote -- Tracking euro notes and their usage
• Canadian Money Tracker
• FindLizzy.co.uk -- British Pound
• OSATSU.NET -- Japanese Yen
• Where Is Mao? -- Chinese Bill Tracking (Now Defunct)
• Where's Renminbi -- Chinese Bill Tracking
• Sedlarna.se -- Swedish Kronor
• SEK -- Swedish Kronor
• Danish Kroner
• Cashfollow -- Swiss Franc
• The Money Tracker -- Tracks Australian notes
• Where's my Bucks -- South African Rand tracker
• Cash Path -- British Pound
• RUR Tracker -- Russian Ruble
• Kövesd a pénzed -- Hungarian currency tracking
• TrackGandhi tracks Indian rupee notes