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Characteristics

A 5-euro banknote with its serial number highlighted. All euro banknotes also contain a second serial number, less evident, which is written in different places depending on the note value.

EuroBillTracker (EBT) is an international non-profit volunteer team dedicated to tracking Euro notes around the world. The site is made up of people who simply enter the information from the notes in their wallet. Each user enters the serial numbers and location information for each note they obtain into EuroBillTracker. A user can then see any comments from other people who have had that note. From this information, the site extracts: Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A serial number is a unique number that is one of a series assigned for identification which varies from its successor or predecessor by a fixed discrete integer value. ... A serial number is a unique number that is one of a series assigned for identification which varies from its successor or predecessor by a fixed discrete integer value. ...

• Diffusion information: Each Euro country has its own range of note serial numbers and from this information EBT can generate diffusion graphs that tell us how the notes travel to other countries. See the Diffusion section for more information.
• Tracking information: When a note is re-entered, the users who previously entered it are notified via email. These hits can be seen in the statistics section.
• Statistics and rankings: Who enters the most notes, which are the top countries? Where are the notes currently situated?

Euro banknotes and coins were put into circulation on January 1 2002 and EBT has been tracking notes since then. The site was initially created by Philippe Girolami (giro). Anssi Johansson (avij) has been assisting with running the site since mid-2003. Site translation and various other tasks are handled by a group of active EBT users.

EuroBillTracker is in no way affiliated with the European Union, European Central Bank, national central banks or other financial institutions. Using EBT is completely free. Headquarters Frankfurt, Germany Established 1 January 1998 President Jean-Claude Trichet Central Bank of Austria, Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain Currency Euro -ISO 4217 Code EUR Reserves >€4 billion Base borrowing rate 4. ...

Statistical Facts

A map of Eurozone according to their EBT hit ratio, i.e. the ratio between the number of banknotes registered at least two times and the total number of banknotes entered in a country. Green represents a higher ratio.

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Core Figures

As of July 7, 2007:

• Number of users - over 108,300 users
• Number of banknotes - over 31,500,000 banknotes
• Number of interesting hits - almost 125,000

Number of banknotes entered (history)

• 2002 - 540,640
• 2003 - 1,040,926
• 2004 - 3,402,230
• 2005 - 7,603,125
• 2006 - 11,669,500

Trivia

The first user to obtain the magical number of entering 100.000 Euro banknotes into EuroBillTracker was bhoeyb from Belgium.

Software and hardware

EuroBillTracker is hosted on a dedicated server (AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ dual-core processor and 4GB memory) which is located in Espoo (Finland). Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of different x86 processors designed and manufactured by AMD. The original Athlon, or Athlon Classic, was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intels competing processors for a significant... Founded 1972 Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Area - Of which land - Rank 528 km² 312 km² ranked 279th Population - Density - Change - Rank 229,443 (2005) 729 inh. ...

EuroBillTracker uses the following software:

• PHP
• MySQL
• phpbabel

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See also

• Where's George? - Tracks United States paper money
• Where's Willy - Tracks Canadian paper money
• Currency bill tracking - Currency bill tracking in general

Wheres George? is a website that tracks American paper money. ... Wheres Willy?, is a website that tracks Canadian paper money — most commonly five dollar bills, but also higher denominations. ... 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. ...

External link

• EuroBillTracker

References

1. ^ Euro Bill Tracker Reaches 50,000 Registered Bills In 15 Weeks Time, press release published on April 12, 2002
2. ^ Saranow, J: "Follow the Money", The Wall Street Journal, December 9, 2002