{"id":570,"date":"2010-04-24T20:42:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T20:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2010-04-24T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T20:42:39","slug":"first-number-plate-auctioned-in-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/first-number-plate-auctioned-in-tajikistan\/","title":{"rendered":"First Number Plate Auctioned in Tajikistan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>The first auction in <strong>Tajikistan<\/strong>, selling &#8220;cool&#8221; number plates for cars, set the record: according to State Traffic  Patrol Department Interior Ministry of Tajikistan, &#8220;0100&#8221; was sold for  40 000 somoni or $9100 ($1=4.36 somoni). &#8220;0707&#8221; was sold for 6500  somoni, while &#8220;0202&#8221; and &#8220;0808&#8221; were sold for 3600 somoni each.<\/p>\n<p>According to STPD, there were 144 &#8220;cool&#8221; license plates at the  auction, 35 of which were sold. Perhaps, if the auction was widely  advertised the organizers would be able to sell more plates.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the organizers were able to collect over 80 thousand somoni,  while the initial price for each number plate was only 75 somoni.<\/p>\n<p>The next auction will take place on May 22. The source in STPD  informed that all proceeds will be spent on the Rogun hydropower plant.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the opinion of experts, the news of the sale of the  license plate for over $9000 produced ambiguous reaction in Tajikistan:  official sources indicate that over half of population in this country  lives below the poverty line while the average monthly salary is $60.  The experts affirm that in the last years the gap between rich and poor  has been increasing. In their opinion, nearly 5% of population can be  considered as wealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first auction in Tajikistan, selling &#8220;cool&#8221; number plates for cars, set the record: according to State Traffic Patrol Department Interior Ministry of Tajikistan, &#8220;0100&#8221; was sold for 40 000 somoni or $9100 ($1=4.36 somoni). &#8220;0707&#8221; was sold for 6500<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/first-number-plate-auctioned-in-tajikistan\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}