If you find a coin on the ground upside down, it has long been considered good luck.

And for a Virginia man who found a lucky penny and then used it to scratch off a winning lottery ticket, it looks like the saying might be true.

Tim Clougherty of Accomack County, Virginia, bought a lottery ticket on April 29, 2024, that offered the prize of $10,000 per month for 10 years when he spotted a penny in the Mini Mart parking lot.

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When he got home, Clougherty used the penny to scratch the numbers on the ticket. When he did, he won the big prize.

“It took a week for it to really start to sink in,” Clougherty told lottery officials, according to the Virginia Lottery.

Instead of settling for the monthly payment, he received a lump sum, which amounted to $1,028,000 before taxes.

The first hit of the $10,000 monthly game is on January 2nd and costs each player $20 per ticket to purchase.

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 remaining.

Last year, a The woman from Virginia hit the $1 million jackpot after already winning a $500,000 prize online earlier that week.

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“I'm in shock!” Jennifer Minton told lottery officials about the win last November. “I'm in disbelief!”

The Virginia Lottery raised about $867 million last year, all of which went to K-12 education in the state.