Currency bill tracking
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 |
[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]
- Where Have I Been? for CAD and US dollars [3]
- Canadian Money Tracker, started in 1999, for CAD (Canada)
- 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.
- Find Lizzy[4], Cash Path[5] and Fiver Finder[6] track banknotes of the pound sterling. The first British currency tracking site, Doshtracker, has been closed down but posts by the site's owner suggest a rebuild is currently being undertaken.
- The Money Tracker started in 2006 for tracking Australian Dollars, and uniquely tracks banknotes using an interactive map of Australia
- Where's my Bucks started tracking South African rands in 2006
- Where's Renminbi tracks Chinese Renminbi (or Yuan) in China
- TrackGandhi tracks Indian Rupee, started in India in 2007
- SEK-Tracker tracks Swedish crowns since 2004
- ontabenito tracks MXN Mexico [7]
- Moja-Lova tracking Croatian kunas using Google maps interface. Developed with Google Web Toolkit and PHP. [8]
[edit] References
- ^ The Where's George Website
- ^ The Where's Willy Website
- ^ www.wherehaveibeen.com
- ^ Find Lizzy
- ^ Cash Path
- ^ Fiver Finder
- ^ Rastreo de Billetes Mexicanos Por Internet On' Ta' Benito.com
- ^ Moja-Lova
- ^ Cupura.Ru
[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
[edit] External links
- Where's George? -- Tracking US dollar bills
- Where's Willy? -- Tracking Canadian dollar bills
- Where Have I Been? -- Tracking Canadian and US dollar bills
- DoshTracker -- British Pound (site being rewritten as of 2008-07-04)
- myEurobill -- Tracking euro notes
- EuroBillTracker -- Tracking euro notes
- EuroTracer -- Tracking euro notes
- Canadian Money Tracker
- FindLizzy.co.uk -- British Pound
- Where's Renminbi -- Chinese Bill Tracking
- Sedlarna.se -- Swedish Kronor
- SEK -- Swedish Kronor
- Cashfollow -- Swiss Franc
- The Money Tracker -- Tracks Australian notes
- Where's my Bucks -- South African Rand tracker
- Cash Path -- British Pound
- TrackGandhi tracks Indian rupee notes
- On' Ta' Benito Pesos Mexicanos
- Moja-Lova -- Croatian kuna
- Cupura -- Russian Ruble
