I hear that. Each dollar I don't spend on a get rich quick scheme is another dollar I have to support my hobby. The odds are astronomical.
Alas, I've already bought tickets. And I've had a number of statistics courses in the past and actually know how the odds are calculated. Go figure
You can't win if you don't play but the odds are like rolling a Die and getting a 1 eleven straight times. Best wishes.
State Lottery = A tax on the naieve. You have a bettter chance of being eaten by a shark in the middle of a desert during a solar eclipse at 11:11 on November 11th after being struck by lightning once you received a military draft notice than you do winning the lottery
So at 11:11am on Nov. 11 you are standing in the Mojave Desert outside Barstow, CA, when a Western Union motorcycle delivery man hands you a telegram informing you of your being drafted into the Marines, then at that moment of maximum solar eclipse, you get hit with a lightning bolt that cooks you to medium-rare, then a great white shark slithers out of a dry arroyo and eats you all up, with extra gravy (I made that last part up, we all know sharks don't like gravy). Sounds perfectly plausible. Spark
Here are a few coins that I'm hoping are error coins that are worth something. this dime is messed up looks like the letters got smushed while it was still wet. missing the date its 199? this dime goes up higher on one side see on the left side there's another letter stamped above the word liberty
All except the 1991 D dime are just damaged, the dime was struck with slightly mis aligned dies. This is quite common and carries no extra value.
Agree damage or environmental damage to all and dime is MAD. Look, the last coin is over 75 years old and environmentally damaged; zinc-plated steel and showing signs of corrosion and rust. The spot above LIBERTY is zinc rot. The red Lincoln, 19XX, was struck with a hammer, flattening the face, date and rim. I hope this info helps you identify future finds that are damaged and not mint errors. The dime has MAD but is a machine/die-alignment "strike" error, and as l.cutler pointed out, is very common and not valuable...Spark