EuroBillTracker

EuroBillTracker (EBT) is a website designed for tracking euro banknotes. It was inspired by the US currency bill tracking website Where's George?Euro Bill Tracker Reaches 50,000 Registered Bills in 15 Weeks Time, press release published on April 12, 2002Saranow, J: "Follow the Money", The Wall Street Journal, 9 December 2002 The aim is to record as many notes as possible to know details about their distribution and movements, follow it up, like where a note has been seen in particular, and generate statistics and rankings, for example, in which countries there are more tickets. EuroBillTracker has registered over 243 million notes with a combined total value of more than €4.4 billion as of February 2026.

Characteristics EuroBillTracker 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 possession. 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: 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 1 January 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 not affiliated with the European Union, European Central Bank, national central banks or other financial institutions. Using EBT is completely free. Unlike Where's George?, EuroBillTracker requires users to register an account before they can enter details of banknotes.

From February 2008 onwards, the website is supposed to be run by a non-profit organization based in France, and called the European Society for EuroBillTrackers or Association des Eurobilltrackers. This organisation, operating generally similar to the Wikimedia Foundation, will be in charge of protecting the EuroBillTracker database and ensuring it is free of charge. Proceedings for the founding of the association are under way as of January 2008; they were launched after disagreements between the founder of the website and other webmasters caused a split of EuroBillTracker into two different sites on 24 December 2007. The two sites reunited in early 2008.

Statistical facts

Core figures As of 11 November 2025: Number of users: over 227,000 Number of banknotes: over 240,600,000 Total value of all notes: over €4,400,000,000 Number of interesting hits: over 1,391,000 Number of bills by country: Inventoried banknotes per year Country 2015 2016 2017201820192020202120222023 Andorra 869 811 2711,112306148177331328 Austria 1,225,403 1,137,506 1,161,0591,220,5281,210,9561,218,9511,293,9671,409,0881,455,981 Belgium 1,793,210 1,573,113 1,344,476 1,156,809925,171625,024576,298582,592549,726 Bulgaria356562328548625262257623620 Croatia 1,737 2,096 1,4151,1761,4197388821,56228,425 Cyprus 9,472 2,922 1,1252,4571,4496919271,1111,976 Czechia4,3715,7274,5387,0565,4273,8064,1234,3952,482 Denmark1,4951,3361,6343,1141,924239847395620 Estonia 142,842 165,738 152,274135,88977,14750,54729,01925,62824,014 Finland 1,168,811 1,005,890 839,943678,850611,413471,090409,552403,080372,581 France 638,701 570,728 451,130429,167401,320328,495327,687342,236715,083 Germany 4,215,049 3,970,351 3,298,1513,009,5043,127,6122,782,8182,897,6202,918,5822,986,853 Greece 115,004 99,217 69,49632,66420,40119,30714,88724,59347,436 Hungary1,1127048401,9861,4566915272,1463,079 Ireland 128,210 153,314 128,223107,28583,26043,05349,59850,90750,799 Italy 656,070 823,571 837,546768,989780,345563,210611,701581,571553,757 Latvia 44,425 49,598 34,98934,27035,93721,34919,62020,14321,310 Lithuania 79,845 106,444 155,096215,000235,657206,462206,917208,825216,495 Luxembourg 22,693 8,868 8,3838,49411,38311,47211,11211,76112,732 Malta 75,163 74,851 59,32493,80063,49754,23769,60546,83038,102 Monaco 19,141 14,719 6,9079102131842021861,970 Netherlands 853,235 738,099 713,575624,300558,656403,658364,908340,216329,102 Poland6,1805,3045,7524,5133,3952,0181,8411,5403,086 Portugal 359,881 372,261 378,756411,736349,236274,417339,274404,141382,513 Romania2,1891,1481,2951,4192,8851,7752,0883,4162,818 San Marino 131 151 260447294125181124103 Slovakia 98,997 124,420 110,50189,59392,70185,748122,424109,124126,567 Slovenia 332,188 275,503 226,141173,859125,962112,84789,19498,99098,229 Spain 384,476 378,765 333,951279,585257,200196,947284,144352,653443,943 Sweden1,2921,2711,4701,5952,6741,397581985937 Vatican City 138 189 151185152294582116

Number of banknotes entered (history)

Since the introduction of the Euro in 2002, the EuroBillTracker had his pick in 2009. From 2009, the following 10 years registered a decreasing of Euro bills introduced. It's clearly visible the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with the movement restrictions that were in place from the end of 2019, beginning of 2020.

Ranking of Euro banknotes introduced per location (history)

+ Location rankings by the total of Euro banknotes introduced Rank 2025 2026 Change 1 Vienna Vienna → 2 Berlin Berlin → 3 Hagen Klagenfurt ▲ 1 4 Klagenfurt Hagen ▼ 1 5 Nuremberg Nuremberg → 6 Helsinki Helsinki → 7 Groningen Graz ▲ 1 8 Graz Groningen ▼ 1 9 Düsseldorf Düsseldorf → 10 Helmbrechts Helmbrechts →

Ranking of Hits per location (history)

+ Location rankings by the total of Hits Rank 2025 2026 Change 1 Vienna Vienna → 2 Helsinki Helsinki → 3 Helmbrechts Helmbrechts → 4 Kouvola Graz ▲ 1 5 Graz Kouvola ▼ 1 6 Klagenfurt Klagenfurt → 7 Berlin Berlin → 8 Tampere Tampere → 9 Groningen Groningen → 10 Hagen Hagen →

Community The growing popularity of EuroBillTracker has led to the development of a community of trackers, especially in countries with a higher usage of the website, such as Finland, the Benelux countries and Slovenia. On the contrary, the percentage of users with respect to the national population is especially low in some south European countries such as France, Spain or Greece, and also in Ireland.

Since 2004, the community has been organising a pan-European yearly meeting during summer. After the 2008 meeting in Ljubljana, the EBT users also decided to organise a winter pan-European meeting. Year Winter Summer 2004 Brussels 2005 Helsinki 2006 Amsterdam 2007 Berlin 2008 Ljubljana 2009 Bologna and Ferrara Vienna 2010 Malta Florence and Prato 2011 Kalkar Barcelona 2012 Frankfurt am Main + ECB Munich 2013 Rouen Rotterdam 2014 Lisbon Turku 2015 Larnaca Brussels and Antwerp 2016 Dublin Sliema 2017 Helsinki 2018 Murcia Vilnius 2019 Munich Lille 2026 Nuremberg

The 2026 meeting took place in Nuremberg during the weekend of 22 August, after the last meeting organized in 2019.

Curiosities: The Winter Meeting in 2010 was the first where the name of the country was attributed to the meeting instead of the host city; The city of Frankfurt am Main was the host of the Winter 2012 Meeting, where the 10th Anniversary of EuroBillTracker was celebrated; After many years without a Meeting (interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic), a Yearly meeting was organized in 2026;

Apart from the yearly meeting, national communities have been organising local gatherings at various levels; most notably, the German-speaking community was once hosted at the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt am Main in April 2007. The visit was repeated in April 2012, during an international meeting.

Notes There was no Winter Meeting in 2017 because the only host that applied to organize the event did it outside of the deadline date.

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