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Currency Tracking Project

gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2013 in General Discussion
I got a dollar bill with that printed on it in Red. It said to go to www.wheresgeorge.com and enter the serial number to see where the bill had been. Has anybody else seen one of these dollar bills like this?
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  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    yes
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  • NOAHNOAH Member Posts: 9,690
    edited November -1
    yes
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  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gjshaw
    I got a dollar bill with that printed on it in Red. It said to go to www.wheresgeorge.com and enter the serial number to see where the bill had been. Has anybody else seen one of these dollar bills like this?
    If you go to the site and enter the serial # it will ask you your location...to help do a "paper trail" on the bill[:)]
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  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I did go to the site and entered the number and it said that it came from some place in Tenn.

    Now I think about it, I was up there in June dropping the wife off at her dads as he was in the hospital with a stroke. I may have been given it in change then.
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  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Somebody else coulda brought it to your town a few days ago and ya got it as change yesterday...just sayin[:D]
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  • KEVD18KEVD18 Member Posts: 15,037
    edited November -1
    its been going on for years. some people get a real kick out of it and go to the lengths to have a special stamp made so they can be the ones initiating a bill into the system.

    whatever makes your flag fly i guess...
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,891 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Several years ago when my oldest daughter was living in Colorado I got one of the where's George dollars here in South Carolina. Just to be perverse I mailed it to my daughter and told her to spend it in Colorado Springs. That should have made someone wonder how the bill made it half way across the country in 4 days.[:D]
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  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How long has this tracking been going on?
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  • cranky2cranky2 Member Posts: 3,236 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm thinking at least 10 years maybe longer.
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  • woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You been Livin' Under a Rock lol[;)]
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,374 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have received maybe 5 or 6 try and remember to log them in just for the fun.. I know there is a group who do as a hobby you can buy the stamp to do them your self ( I do not ) but I guess its a cheep hobby
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,840 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WG is fun, I have about 20,000 bills entered. Most of them were entered 10+ years ago, when I had more time to spend on silly stuff. [:D]

    Really really really neat to watch how money travels around.

    The coolest "hit" I had was when I took a bunch of bills to Costa Rica with me to spend, just to see where they'd go. About six months later, my aunt gives me this bill and said "I got this in my change, you can enter it."

    So, I do, and it is MY BILL! One of the ones I'd spent in Costa Rica! How freaky is THAT?

    A friend of mine is completely nuts about WG, he is the one who got me started. He has over 100k bills entered!

    Merc
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes... Been going on for a while now...
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,237 ******
    edited November -1
    yup,,,
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  • dlrjjdlrjj Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have received several, but never followed up with any of them.
    Tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is an art form.
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  • LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,142 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think that been going on since they started putting George Washington on the dollar bill.











    It was a lot tougher back before the internet and you had to write a letter to the organization and they in turn would write back with a response.



    [:o)]
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  • PTHEIMPTHEIM Member Posts: 3,374
    edited November -1
    I R member of WG, just a couple weeks ago I entered a bill and it had been on the road for almost 8 years and hit w/my hit only 4 times.

    I gots a half dozen more on the 'puter here to enter and check sometime.
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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    ''0bama'' bux they are... Just his way of getting ALL your money [:0]
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  • dlrjjdlrjj Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Flying Clay Disk
    Not exactly on-topic, but related. I read an article the other day which said the average lifespan of a dollar bill is only 4 months. I'm sure many live longer (some much longer), but I thought that was a surprising statistic. I would have expected longer than 4 months.


    Bureau of Engraving and Printing says more like 14 months, according to signs on their walls in DC.
    Tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is an art form.
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  • 45forme45forme Member Posts: 948 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    In Oregon the dollar bills all have a speech bubble printed over George Washington saying "I grew hemp"
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  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 45forme
    In Oregon the dollar bills all have a speech bubble printed over George Washington saying "I grew hemp"
    I've got a $1 bill like that...stamped green hemp leaf...and words in red bubble "I grew hemp"...only one i've seen like it
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