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Finding a coin face up on the ground has always been considered a good luck charm.
And for a Virginia man who found a lucky penny and used it to scratch off a lottery ticket, the saying rings true.
Tim Clougherty of Accomack County, Virginia, was purchasing a lottery ticket that offered a prize of $10,000 per month for 10 years on April 29, 2024, when he noticed a penny in the Mini Mart parking lot.
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When he got home, Clougherty used the penny to scratch off the numbers on the ticket. When he did that, he won the top prize.
“It took me a week to really settle in,” Clougherty told Virginia Lottery officials.
Instead of choosing monthly payouts, he took a lump sum in cash, which amounted to $1,028,000 before taxes.
The first hit of the $10,000-a-month game is January 2nd, and each player must pay $20 per ticket.
According to the Virginia Lottery, the odds of winning the game's top prize are 1 in 612,000, with two of the top prizes still up for grabs.
Last year, a Virginia woman won the $1 million lottery jackpot after winning a $500,000 prize online the same week.
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“I'm in shock!” Jennifer Minton told lottery officials about the win last November. “I can't believe it!”
The Virginia Lottery raised an estimated $867 million last year, all of which went toward K-12 education in the state.
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