My statistics after the first 17 months as a tracker (updated til the end of May 2004) ***note in July-04: my Excel is out of order, that's why some figures need to be updated later ***
January-03: 97 notes of which 47 (48,5%) were foreign and 14 (14,4%) exported
February-03: 75 notes, 26 (34,7%) foreign and 22 (29,3%) exported
March-03: 126 notes, 45 (35,7%) foreign and 22 (17,5%) exported
April-03: * 193 notes, 80 (41,5%) foreign and 54 (28,0%) exported
May-03: 154 notes, 61 (39,6%) foreign and 35 (22,7%) exported
June-03: 136 notes, 43 (31,6%) foreign and 47 (34,6%) exported
July-03: * 125 notes, 77 (61,6 %) foreign and 38 (30,4 %) exported
August-03: * 378 notes, 102 (27,0%) foreign and 17 (4,5 %) exported
September-03: 146 notes, 95 (65,1%) foreign and 0 exported (what a dull September!)
October-03: 230 notes, 152 (66,1%) foreign 53 (23,0%) exported
November-03: 117 notes, 72 (61,5%) foreign and 41 (35,0 %) exported
December-03:**** 346 notes, 154 (44,5% foreign) and 93 (26,9%) exported
Total in 2003: 2123 notes, 1005 (47,3%) foreign and 464 (21,9%) exported
Jan-04: 74 notes (boo!), 39 (52,7%) were foreign and 10 (13,7%) exported
Feb-04: 137 notes, 69 (50,4 %) were foreign and 4 (2,9%) exported
Mar-04: **** 383 notes, 166 (43,3%) foreign, 128 (33,4%) exported
Apr-04: 251 notes, 116 (46,2%) foreign, 111 (44,2%) exported
May-04: *** 461 notes, 196 (42,5%) foreign, 141 (30,6%) exported
June-04 331 notes(my Excel doesn't work at the moment, so these figures will be updated later)
July-04:****** 710 notes - the monthly total is my personal best so far
August-04:* 207 notes
September-04: 373 notes
October-04: *** 223 notes
November-04: ****
December-04:* * notes
Foreign= Notes received elsewhere than in their country of origin (well, pooling notes included)
Exported = Notes I've spent abroad (in a different country than they were received in, never mind the country code of the note)
Notes registered in
coloured months contain hits, and the asterisks indicate the amount.
* means given hits,
* received ones. Click on the asterisk to see the hit details.
Exposure days (counted using a "not less than" method. Each month's notes have certainly been in circulation since the month following their registration, and this gives us the following figures.)
Amount of notes - Circulation days by the end of May-04 - Total exposure days for those notes - Total exposure days at the end of respective month
97 (JAN-03) 486 47142
75 (FEB) 458 34350
126 (MAR) 427 53802
193 (APR) 397 76621
154 (MAY) 366 56364
136 (JUN) 336 45696
125 (JUL) 305 38125
378 (AUG) 274 103572- 103856
146 (SEP) 244 35624- 131036
230 (OCT) 213 48990- 186706
117 (NOV) 183 21411- 236506
346 (DEC) 152 52592- 291593
76 (JAN-04) 121 9196- 357406
137 (FEB) 92 12604- 421177
383 (MAR) 61 23363- 493593
251 (APR) 31 7781 - 575163
Exposure days til the last ended month: 667233
Total exposure days January03-January04 were 357406. According to Emmem's calculations, about 760800 are needed for a hit. I would say that I was lucky. If we round a bit, you could say that I was hit at 300000.
My first hit which I got after 361 days as a tracker was with a Finnish user Milo who had entered 103 notes (I had 2093 then). Hit distance: Lisbon-Tampere 3381 kilometres in 29 days.
Added 59 notes in between and got another one 12 days later:
My second hit happened after 373 days as a tracker. Hit with a Finnish user Trurl who had entered 8 notes (I had 2152 then). Hit distance: Brussels-Tampere 1671 kilometres in 24 days.
406 notes and 69 days later along came this:
My third hit (442 days as a tracker).
Hit partner Tintti who had 24 notes at that point (I had 2558 then). Hit distance a disappointing 6 kilometres in 115 days. The note was released into the wild in Antwerp.
After 539 notes and 59 days it was time to celebrate my 500 days as a tracker. And boy oh boy the presents I got in the following few days:
4th hit - 501 days as a tracker, 3097 notes
(the hit partner Gro had 42 then). The note had travelled 1573 kilometres in 63 days.
Plus 13 notes and only 2 days:
5th hit.
Me: 503 days as a tracker, 3110 notes.
Partner: Melankolia 302 notes, 1 hit before this one.
The note: 97 kilometres in 69 days.
13 notes and one day later:
6th hit.
Me: 504 days as a tracker, 3123 notes.
Partner: Bird, 353 notes, 1st hit.
The note: 3558 kilometres in 171 days.
17 notes and one day later:
7th hit.
Me: 505 days as a tracker, 3140 notes.
Partner: PekkaThai whose vital statistics are 25434/95.
The note: 98 kilometres in 86 days.
Happy, but flabbergasted: what have I done to deserve this? 2 more days and 35 notes after the previous one, there was a new hit - this time with the longest circulation.
8th hit.
Me: 507 days as a tracker, 3175 notes.
Partner: Mindman - 57 notes and this was his first hit.
The note: 158 kilometres in 410 days.
You would think that each and every new hit would make you happy. Well, that's not the case. Having entered 306 new notes in 14 days, there was another on the way:
9th hit
Me: 521 days as a tracker, 3476 notes.
Partner: Cinnamon - 4472 notes and 35 hits.
The note: 0 kilometres in 12 days, and that's disappointing. It didn't even get out of the original zip code zone!
Plus 26 days and 371 notes - ta-dah, here's the tenth hit:
10th hit
Me: 547 days as a tracker, 3847 notes.
Partner: Aplfi - 4071 notes and 29 hits.
The note: 14 km in 144 days.
11th hit
Me: 563 days as a tracker, 4169 notes.
Partner: DJ Frank - 16987 notes and 93 hits.
The note: 8 km in 134 days. Returned into circulation in Brussels.
12th hit
Me: 566 days as a tracker, 4186 notes.
Partner: Rubia/Bobtail - 5661 notes and 12 hits.
The note:
3675 km in 235 days.
The next day I got twins
Two hits in one day! I'm glad that the 13 was a lucky number this time:
13th hit
Me: 567 days as a tracker, 4195 notes.
Partner: Cinnamon - 7938 notes and 65 hits.
The note: 4 km in 31 days. If anyone finds this later, the distance should be bigger: I spent it in Maastricht.
14th hit
Me: 567 days as a tracker, 4215 notes.
Partner: PekkaThai - 29786 notes and 140 hits.
The note: 66 km in 121 days. Spent in Belgium later.
We've got to stop meeting this way with Pekka Thai! 13 days and 277 notes later here's the third hit between us:
15th hit
Me: 580 days as a tracker, 4492 notes.
Partner: PekkaThai - 32389 notes and 157 hits.
The note: 1724 km in 399 days.
Just 5 days + 5 notes added:
16th hit
585, 4497
de-jo 49944:50
118 km 262 d, returned into circulation in Maastricht. Go find it!
Going steady: +25 days, +271 notes.
17th hit
Me: 610 days of hard tracking (well, not so hard), 4768 notes.
Hit partner Niclas, 2431/14.
The note 154 km in 169 days.
Add 24 days and 282 notes and what do you get? This:
18th hit
Me: 634 days as a tracker, 5050 notes.
Hit partner bbbb, 270 notes/3 hits.
The note 196 km in 420 days.
19th hit Me: 644 days as a tracker, 5113 notes. --- Hit partner Maple, 6187notes/51 hits. --- The note 146 km in 74 days.
20th hit Me: 650 days as a tracker, 5123 notes. --- Hit partner Juk3965, 3355 notes / 28 hits. --- The note 231 km in
525 days.
21st hit Me: 665 days as a tracker, 5238 notes. --- Hit partner Goldwood, 9033 notes / 16 hits. --- The note 107 km in 251 days.
22nd hit Me: 671 days as a tracker, 5372 notes. --- Hit partner Space FP, 16402 notes / 88 hits. --- The note 1 km in 206 days.
23rd hit Me: 672 days as a tracker, 5382 notes. --- Hit partner Mako, 1519 notes / 16 hits. --- The note 1 km in 33 days.
24th hit Me: 674 days as a tracker, 5420 notes. --- Hit partner Nittax, 12682 notes / 72 hits. --- The note 121 km in 40 days.
25th hit Me: 676 days as a tracker, 5259 notes. --- Hit partner Space FP, 16402 notes / 88 hits. --- The note 47 km in 9 days.
26th hit Me: 678 days as a tracker, 5462 notes. --- Hit partner Elmo, 26027 notes / 41 hits. --- The note 147 km in 246 days.
27th hit Me: 684 days as a tracker, 5473 notes. --- Hit partner Mauz, 1293 notes / 5 hits. --- The note 8 km in 16 days.
28th hit Me: 696 days as a tracker, 5533 notes. --- Hit partner MissTracker, 3111 notes / 27 hits. --- The note 153 km in 148 days.
29th hit Me: ??? days as a tracker, 5703 notes. --- Hit partner Fundamental, 18919notes / 146 hits. --- The note 5 km in 271 days.
30th hit Me: ??? days as a tracker, 5793 notes. --- Hit partner 2fast4you, 5634 notes / 33 hits. --- The note 166 km in 96 days.
Hit ratio: 5793:30=193:1 (funny, last time it was 198:1 and before that 197)
Average hit distance 588 kilometres (17634/30)
Average hit duration 160 days (4809/30).
Hits by value:
15 hits = 50 %
8 hits = 27,33 %
5 hits = 17,33 %
2 hits = 7,33%
Hits by notes' national codes:
15 times = 50 %
7 times = 23 %
3 times = 10 %
2 time = 7 %
1 time = 3,33 %
1 time = 3,33 %
1 time = 3,33 %
So far received and/or spent euros in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden.
TOP-10 of freaky serial numbers
1. *AABBBBBB*** ( entered in Brussels )
2. *AABABB*CCCC ( entered in Brussels )
3. *****AAAAA** ( entered in Tampere )
4. *AA*BBBBCC** ( entered in Brussels )
5. ****AAABBBB* ( entered in Brussels )
6. *AABBBA**CCC ( entered in Aachen )
7. ****AAABBBB* ( entered in Tampere )
8. *AABBBA**CCC ( entered in Maastricht )
9. **ABBAA*AAAA ( entered in Brussels )
10. **AAAA*ABB*A ( entered in Tampere )
During the first year I managed to find only 14 Irish and 16 Greek notes.
V - Spain - 
Y - Greece - 
N - Austria - 
T - Ireland - 
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5 - 8328 (17,7 %) - 41640 EUR
10 - 13226 (28,2 %) - 132260 EUR
20 - 9747 (20,7 %) - 194940 EUR
50 - 14015 (29,8 %) - 700750 EUR
100 - 1139 (2,4 %) - 113900 EUR
200 - 432 (0,9 %) - 86400 EUR
500 - 93 (0,2 %) - 46500 EUR
X Germany 14682 (31,3 %) 
U France 4418 (9,4 %) 
Z Belgium 3446 (7,3 %) 
V Spain 3011 (6,4 %) 
S Italy 2961 (6,3 %) 
N Austria 2066 (4,4 %) 
M Portugal 765 (1,6 %) 
Y Greece 544 (1,2 %) 
T Ireland 341 (0,7 %) 
L Finland 325 (0,7 %) 
H Slovenia 36 (0,1 %) 
F Malta 1 (0,0 %) 
G Cyprus 1 (0,0 %) 
Charleville Mèziers: 2 bills - 0,261%
Madrid: 2 bills - 0,261%
Gardermoen 5
Luxembourg 7 
