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The December 29, 2010, drawing of the multi-state lottery game Hot Lotto featured an advertised top prize of US$16.5 million. [21] On November 9, 2011, Philip Johnston, a resident of Quebec City, Canada, [5] phoned the Iowa Lottery to claim a ticket that had won the jackpot; stating he was too sick to claim the prize in person, he provided a 15-digit code that verified the winning ticket.
He purchased his ticket at Joe's Service Center in Altadena, which received a $1 million reward from the Powerball operator for selling the winning ticket. [74] On July 19, 2023, a single ticket purchased in Los Angeles, California, was the only winner of a $1.08 billion ($558.1 million cash) Powerball jackpot. [75]
Payouts range from 57% of sales ($1 tickets) to 76.94% ($30 tickets), to over 80% ($50 tickets). Originally, a winning ticket was denoted by two matching letters in the play area. Later, this was updated to the winning amount being highlighted with parentheses at the top or bottom of the play area, in order, but not necessarily consecutively ...
Tickets for the O-Train light rail line were initially sold for $2 each at ticket vending machines in 2002 ($2.60 in 2016 dollars) when paying cash, lower than the $2.50 bus cash fare but pricier than the $1.70 ($2.21 in 2016 dollars) ticket fare at the time. Train tickets can be exchanged for a bus transfer on board of an OC Transpo bus.
The chemical properties of US banknotes printed before 1960 make marking pens useless, resulting in false positives. [2] One example of this complication taking place happened in 2016, in which a 13-year-old student was arrested by police after she attempted to pay for lunch with a red seal Series 1953 $2 bill after the school's counterfeit pen ...
A series 1976 $2 bill, heavily worn from over four decades in circulation. Because $2 bills are uncommon in daily use, their use can make spenders visible. A documented case of using two-dollar bills to send a message to a community is the case of Geneva Steel and the communities in the surrounding Utah County. In 1989, Geneva Steel re-opened ...
The rolls come flat and one side will have to be folded to allow for coins to be placed inside. When the roll is full, the top side will need to be folded. Typically, the full rolls are brought back to the banks in exchange for currency or to be deposited. The Royal Canadian Mint uses check weighers to verify the number of coins per roll. [9]
The following is a list of web-printed notes and their serial number blocks: 1988A. B..L 6 (part) Mixed run of web and regular May 1992; F..* 3 (part) Mixed run of web and regular Jun 1992