Wheres George?
I just stumbled upon an interesting website that tracks US curency as it travels through the economy. WheresGeorge.com tracks bills based on their serial number and lists them based on demonination, zip code and state. The project would be far more interesting if it had more data. The bills with the most entries is only 16. I am sure the average bill changes hands far more then that. Some of the descriptions of the bills are pretty funny "Bill somewhat worn, folded in the middle. Must have been in someones pocket or up their butt @ one time. Strange discolorations of unknown brown and a whiteish substance." It is too bad that you appear to need to have a bill stamped before it can be entered into the system...and they dont make any more stamps. If they offered a modest reward for entering all of the serial numbers of the bills in your wallet I am sure they could build a large dataset that would actually be useful. Alas, that would probably be illegal.
