"I Blew It," says Jim

The New Year brought an e-mail from Jim, Shelly's colleague who has recently returned to North Carolina.
Remember those 100 peso notes with the President's last name spelled Arrovo rather than Arroyo? Well, Jim had managed to snag a couple of those bills from the front desk of his hotel, though he didn't realize they were anything special until the story made the news.

His e-mail also had a Reuters news story attached, noting that by the end of December, the bills were going for more than US$20 each on eBay.

"The girl that sold them to me had a whole stack of 50," Jim wrote. "They had doubled in value the next day."

They're still fetching more than US$12, which is pretty good when you consider their face value is little under two bucks. There's one optimistic eBay seller who says he's selling an Arrovo bill with the serial number AL999999. His opening bid was set at US$189.50.

Makes me wish I had one or two of those...