I wouldn't do coins that's more of an interest from earlier in my life and the knowledge never goes away, but I don't actually collect anymore.
s to lottery ,I won't even buy a Powerball/ Megamillions ticket. I only play the CT state classic lotto game when the jackpot is high, it's an 8 million to one shot but $1 not two and that's a lot better odds than 300 million to one. Pot starts at 1m, I only play when it is large and only for $4 bucks a week, two tickets each for Tuesday and Friday drawings , pot is 10m now cash, so like 6m after taxes, the perfect amount that would enable me to do everything I desire.
I know a guy that hit it for 4M +, he got free tickets as a retailer and just bought tickets with his commission money.
First thing I'd do is shocking.i would buy my X-wife the condo she wants, about 225k there then a new car, just a VW, Honda type for 25 k, then allow perhaps as much as 50 k for furniture and appliances for maybe now 300 k, then have my attorney set up some sort of annuity to automatically pay taxes and condo fees on it for the next 20 years plus an allowance of a few hundred dollars a week because she is too stupid to do such things, probably brings the tab to about 1M, she'd bep set until age 83 and out of my hair, if she lives past 83, too bad tough luck, I'll be long dead by then and you should have the common decency to croak by that age