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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.

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

  • Where's George?. 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]
  • 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.

References

  1. ^ The Where's George Website.
  2. ^ The Where's Willy Website.

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".

See Also

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