A few months ago, I came across a webpage (on wikipedia) talking about different websites wherein users would log the banknotes that they possess. The website, in turn would track the banknotes registered and will analyze the trend of movement and usage of banknotes of different denominations. There are sites tracking the movement of US dollar, Euro, UK Pound, Australian Dollar and Chinese Yuan among others.
There is also this site TrackGandhi, which tracks the Indian rupee. It has not yet gathered much popularity to be able to analyse the trends of the movement of the Indian rupee. The major reason may be that most of the people of India do not have much internet access and even among those who do access internet regularly, the trend of using it for anything other than to check e-mail is not very widespread.
I found the website as interesting. I just started logging the rupee notes that I had (whenever I could). What surprised me was the realisation about the number of banknotes that we handle in our daily lives. The number of ten and hundred rupee notes that come into our hands and go away by the end of the day. How rarely do we see a five rupee note nowadays and also that the twenty rupee note has become scarce. The humble one and two rupee notes are almost confined to museums and all of the circulating banknotes are numbered in a particular format.
Maybe these things interested me because of my fascination with numbers and things that are related to mathematics...I have to start looking into the 'old' currency of India just to explore if this study of currency can become a good hobby.
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