world reserve monetary exchange

You Can Still Overpay For $2 Bills With Stickers On Them If You Want

You Can Still Overpay For $2 Bills With Stickers On Them If You Want

By Phil Villarreal 6.3.10

Those doctored $2 bills the World Reserve Monetary Exchange advertises as collectibles via misleading newspaper and magazine ads aren’t going away. The ad ran again Monday in papers around the country. [More]

Newsweek Readers, Don't Fall For The Scam On Pages 60 and 61

Newsweek Readers, Don't Fall For The Scam On Pages 60 and 61

By Phil Villarreal 2.17.10

Remember that ad for doctored “state” $2 bills that ran in newspapers across the country? Now the “World Reserve Monetary Exchange,” the company that takes regular $2 bills and places stickers on them to turn them into state versions of the bills, has taken out a two-page spread of this week’s Newsweek. [More]

Company Selling Doctored 'State $2 Bills' For $17 Apiece

Company Selling Doctored 'State $2 Bills' For $17 Apiece

By Phil Villarreal 2.3.10

An enterprising company called World Reserve Monetary Exchange took out ads in two Arizona newspapers last month, and presumably others throughout the country, offering supposedly rare, collectable ‘state $2 bills’ — meant to capitalize on the recent craze of state quarters — for $17 each, I reported in my day job at the Arizona Daily Star. [More]