Where's George?

Where's George? is a website that will help the circulation of U.S. banknotes can be tracked. The website was made in November 1998 by the database developer Hank Eskin first time online. The name " Where's George? " Refers to George Washington, which is represented on the 1 dollar bill.

Banknote Registration

To register a banknote, the value, the serial and the serial number of the bill as well as its own postal code entered. After that, the database stores the bill, reports more sightings and calculates the distance traveled and the time interval between cash register operation. Users have the ability to make a free form text information on the location and the status of the dollar.

By February 2009, about 147 million banknotes worth 800 million U.S. dollars have been registered on the site. About nine percent of the banknotes are called hits were therefore reported more than once.

Others

2001 launched the project in addition Eskin Where's Willy, where the walk of Canadian bank notes can be followed along the lines of "Where's George ".

Founded in France in 2002 Euro Bill Tracker project, in which the circulation is investigated by euro banknotes, was inspired by " Where's George? ".