Dollar distance..

[fridgedoctor]

I’ve just bought some $20 notes (here in Scotland) for my niece who’s going to Hawaii for the summer.
I was looking and noticed one was from 2013.
Now I know it’s unknowable, but it made me wonder, how many times will it have been around the globe, what will it have been up to on it’s travels etc...
What does PH think?

[jeremyb]

There's a website for tracking $1 bills:
https://www.wheresgeorge.com/

[S1KRR]

jeremyb said:

There's a website for tracking $1 bills:
https://www.wheresgeorge.com/

(I cant test it but if that works)

That's amazing

and

Deeply disturbing that currency is that traceable!

[csd19]

Surely most dollar bills end up tucked into stripper Tiffany's g-string??

[GeneralSinn]

csd19 said:

Surely most dollar bills end up tucked into stripper Tiffany's g-string??

$1 ... how cheap are you and/or how awful are the strippers for such a terrible tip!

[red_slr]

S1KRR said:

jeremyb said:

There's a website for tracking $1 bills:
https://www.wheresgeorge.com/

(I cant test it but if that works)

That's amazing

and

Deeply disturbing that currency is that traceable!

One of the most basic ways to track someone is with cash money.

[ambuletz]

so OP, how far has your dollars gone??

[PMacanGTS]

One thing is for sure, it will have cocaine residue on it somewhere.

[Saleen836]

My fresh crisp uncirculated $2 bank note hasn't been anywhere

[HOGEPH]

Neither has my $3 bill.

[Saleen836]

HOGEPH said:

Neither has my $3 bill.

Mine hasn't as it came direct from the bank last time I was in the US

[Tango13]

HOGEPH said:

Neither has my $3 bill.

Want to swap it for a £7 note? I know it's a genuine £7 note because it's triangular

[HOGEPH]

Tango13 said:

Want to swap it for a £7 note? I know it's a genuine £7 note because it's triangular

Chuck in a 9 bob note and it's a deal...

[csd19]

GeneralSinn said:

csd19 said:

Surely most dollar bills end up tucked into stripper Tiffany's g-string??

$1 ... how cheap are you and/or how awful are the strippers for such a terrible tip!

Try Scottish strip clubs - combination of rough strippers and tight customers!

They always get a bit pissed when you ask them for change...

[p4cks]

Saleen836 said:

My fresh crisp uncirculated $2 bank note hasn't been anywhere

I’ve got a couple of these too, consecutive serial numbers too.

I checked recently and they’re worth $2 each

[hoegaardenruls]

csd19 said:

Surely most dollar bills end up tucked into stripper Tiffany's g-string??

On a similar theme..

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/26/health/atm-dirt...

A note from 2013 you say??..

[Kiribati268]

jeremyb said:

There's a website for tracking $1 bills:
https://www.wheresgeorge.com/

Fascinating, shame it isn't more popular. It is mad to think what coins/notes have been through and where they've been to end up in your hands. Then once you hand them over, where they will go to next?

I wonder how often people handle the same note twice in their lives. Giving a note to a shop and then X years later getting it back somehow without knowing. I imagine it's very, very slim.


Shame there isn't one for sterling notes, well, after a brief google, I can't find one.

Edited by Kiribati268 on Wednesday 29th May 15:43

[Shakermaker]

red_slr said:

One of the most basic ways to track someone is with cash money.

I really don't understand how this works, please explain? Do you mean from a starting point of a person having a known quantity of banknotes with known serial numbers? How do you know where these are at any time once they've spent them, and then the next person gets that bill in change for something else?

[KungFuPanda]

Shakermaker said:

red_slr said:

One of the most basic ways to track someone is with cash money.

I really don't understand how this works, please explain? Do you mean from a starting point of a person having a known quantity of banknotes with known serial numbers? How do you know where these are at any time once they've spent them, and then the next person gets that bill in change for something else?

I’d like to hear the logic about this too.

[Shakermaker]

Must be something to it, given how in every hostage movie, the bad guys always want unmarked, non-sequential bills for the ransom money