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. A £20 Bank of England banknote. ... Ornithology (from the Greek ornis = bird and logos = word/science) is the branch of zoology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ... who cares though]] island species, have also lost the ability to fly. ... Bird ringing (also known as bird banding) is an aid to studying wild birds, by attaching a small individually numbered metal or plastic ring to their legs or wings, so that various aspects of the birds life can be studied by the ability to re-find the same individual...

Some bill tracking sites encourage marking before spending, whereas others do not. This usually depends on the laws of the country issuing the currency.

Popular currency bill tracking websites

Some of the most popular websites for bill tracking include the following: A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML...

• 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]

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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

• OSATSU.NET, started in 2000, for Japanese yen. (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

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References

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

In popular culture

The act of tracking a $20 bill was the binding theme between various stories in the film Twenty Bucks. Twenty Bucks is a 1993 film that follows the travels of a $20 bill from a crisp new bill from the ATM through various transactions an incidents from person to person through the city. ...

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". BookCrossing, BC, BCing, or BXing, is defined as the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise. ...

See Also

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

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External links

• Where's George? -- Tracking US dollar bills
• Track This Bill -- Tracking US dollar bills
• TrackCash -- Tracking US dollar bills
• NoteTrace -- British Pound
• EuroBillTracker -- Tracking Euro notes
• EuroTracer -- Tracking Euro notes
• MyEuroNote -- Tracking Euro notes and their usage
• Where's Willy? -- Tracking Canadian dollar bills
• Canadian Money Tracker
• FindLizzy.co.uk -- British Pound
• OSATSU.NET -- Japanese Yen
• 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