What number plate is worth the most?

The most expensive licence plate in the world in terms of listed value is the California MM, selling for $24.3 million. This sale price includes an NFT that is laser-inscribed onto the back of the plate. The highest price paid for a plate that was actually sold was $9.5 million for plate D5 in Dubai.

What is the most valuable number plate?

In fact, the most expensive number plate in the world is literally “1”, and can be found the United Arab Emirates. It was purchased by Abu Dhabi businessman Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri in 2008 for a price tag of £7.25 mil.

Who owns the 1 number plate?

Registration Number '1'

Abu Dhabi property mogul Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri snapped it up in 2008. He later commented: 'I bought it because it's the best number'.

Who owns the most expensive plate number in the world?

1) Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri's $14m '1'

The '1' is the most expensive number plate in the world. The registration plate was sold to Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri for Dh52 million ($14 million) in 2008.

Who owns 007 number plate?

A Guernsey resident won the battle to buy the new (number-only) States of Guernsey registration, '007', in a recent auction. The buyer, who wishes to remain anonymous, bought it for a whopping £240,000!

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How much is the 007 number plate?

A licence plate with the code number of Ian Fleming's heroic spy, James Bond, has sold at auction for what is thought to be a record amount. The Guernsey plate, 007, sold for £240,000, believed to be the most paid at a public auction in Guernsey. The winning bidder of the number only plate wants to remain anonymous.

How much is the reg A1 worth?

A1 is purposely not valued here as we are told that this is just not for sale, the owner also owns 1A. Many of the single letter/single number combinations (known in the trade as “Single-Single's”) are totally unique and are worth whatever their owner values them at!

Are number plates a Good Investment?

Having private registrations on your vehicles can help with this uncertainty. Because they are a good investment and tend to increase in price even as the car itself depreciates, you know that you can always sell your private number plate on when and if you want or need to, giving you a good return.

How much is the F1 number plate?

The 'F1' number plate, the most expensive in the world, was for sale on RegTransfers, a private number plates and car registrations supplier.

What is the UK's most expensive number plate?

The 25 O tops the list as the most expensive private plate ever sold in the UK. Purchased in 2014 by a classic car dealer and collector, John Collins, for £518,000.

Who owns number plate 2 Dubai?

The auction saw Dubai-based real estate boss Hong Yang, 30, from China, bid Dh1. 7m for plate number '999', code 2.

Who owns the number plate Gypsy?

Aaron Smith, a “born and bred” Leicestershire Romany Gypsy, had an unexpected admirer of his 'G0 GIPSY' number plate last Tuesday when he parked his Range Rover outside the King Power Leicester City Football Club Stadium not long after his home team 'the Foxes' beat Everton 3-1 to take the Premiership title.

What makes a number plate valuable?

Generally, the age and novelty of a number plate are the principal factors governing its value. Older plates tend to command a higher price and also tend to be rarer since there are less of them.

Do number plates make money?

Why number plates? You can make money from number plates because they hold and increase in value as each one is unique. Realistically you're unlikely to find an interested buyer for a randomly assigned registration mark (that's the usual reg plates that we get with a car).

Are private number plates worth it?

It's a Good Investment…

Well, each one is unique, so over time, it increases in value. In fact, private number plates have historically gained in value over the years, so much so that people are choosing to invest in number plates instead of putting money into ISAs, TESSAs and bonds.

Are old number plates worth anything?

Over the past 100 or so years, different styles of number plates have been used. As a rule of thumb, the older number plates are more valuable than the newer styles. Especially dateless number plates, which are always popular. Current style number plates are the most recent, starting in 2001.

What will happen to number plates in 2050?

The number plate system in place will only last until 2050, because adding 50 every September will eventually require an extra digit on the plate. Even though it's a long way off (32 years to be exact) there are no other new number plate systems in the pipeline.

Who owns BMT 216A?

In the years following the end of the production of Thunderball, BMT 216A was given back to Aston Martin which had the gadgets stripped away and sold to Gavin Keyzar, a company director from Kent, England.

How do you value a number plate?

Factors of a private number plate valuation

Your number plate valuation is determined by how desirable it is to other people, as well as how rare the plate is. Although every number plate is 'rare' (there is only one of each!), some are rarer and more desirable than others.

How can I sell my number plate quickly?

Do the DVLA buy number plates back?

No, It's not possible to sell your private number plate back to the DVLA. The DVLA sells cherished number plates, but only new ones. They won't buy back registrations that have already been issued to a vehicle.

Does the Queen's car have a number plate?

Her Majesty doesn't actually need number plates on her cars, or in fact a licence to drive them. That's just one of the many perks of the top job. However, she does own number plates and the most prestigious of the lot is 'A7', one of the first plates ever seen on British roads awarded in 1903.

Can I sell my original number plate?

You can sell a personalised number plate you own privately or through a dealer. Although using a dealer will involve paying them a fee, it will take the burden of making sure the paperwork and financial transaction are all in order.

What do police see when they run your plates UK?

A network of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) and cameras mounted in police vehicles captures images of number plates and use optical character recognition (OCR) to determine the registration of cars using UK roads.

How much is a 1 digit number plate worth in Dubai?

The world's most expensive car licence plate — made up of the single digit “1” — was sold for 52.2-million AED (an eye-watering R218m in today's money) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in February 2008.