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Number Plate 1 CUE owned by snooker champion Jimmy White, this superb registration was purchased by Regplates.com last year and resold to a private client. Many of the exclusive number plates we sell are bought by clients looking for an alternative investment. With banks offering such low returns, now is a great time to acquire number plates to resell. Regplates offer a full purchase, resale and transfer service for our investment clients.

Roman Abramovitch is one of the richest men in the world and is the alleged new owner of VIP 1. This is surely the ultimate in personalised registration numbers, its previous owner was none other than Pope John Paul II who used the number plate on his vehicle during a visit to Ireland in 1979. The plate was resold for a figure in excess of £ 250,000.

Afzal Khan, 37, smashed the previous record of £ 331,000, paid 18 months ago for M1, to purchase the historic F1 number plate from Essex County Council. The Bradford entrepreneur, who owns a specialist car design company, plans to display the number plate on his £ 317,000 Mercedes SLR McLaren supercar. Its first owner was the Essex county surveyor, Percy John Sheldon, who attached it to his 15hp, four-seater Panhard Levassor. After a period in private hands it was given back to the county council in 1955 and subsequently used on a variety of civic limousines including a Darracq Torpedo, a Humber, a Daimler and a Jaguar. The authority will use its windfall to fund an advanced driver training programme to improve the skills of hundreds of young motorists in Essex.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - How much would you expect a motorist to shell out for a personalised number plate? Number 5 fetched $6.75 million, now the UAE has set another world record. Nowhere is the craze for a unique plate more intense than in the United Arab Emirates, the oil-rich Persian Gulf nation that holds the world record for the six most expensive plate. Here, it's all about how low you can go - with people battling it out at auctions to win the chance to show off license plates with the lowest digit. The numbers 5 and 7 have already been snapped up, sold for 25 million dirhams $6.75 million and 11 million dirhams $2.97 million respectively. Number 1 sold for $14.5 million making it a world record seller. Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri, paid Dh52.2 million securing himself and his registration a place in the Guinness World Record Book!

Magician Paul Daniels is arguably one of the worlds top magicians and has owned this perfectly matched registration plate MAG 1C for many years. It was featured on a Ferrari at the time which was included in the sale. Originially issued in Hull, this celebrity number plate has found its perfect home!

Comedian Jimmy Tarbuck is the proud owner of registration number COM 1C. A perfect match for the tv presenter and celebrity COMIC. Jimmy has been on our screens since 1965 and has owned this prestigious registration since the 1960's.

Lord Sugar star of The Apprentice and hugely successful business man owns the registration AMS 1 which represents both his initials and AMS for AMSTRAD Lord Sugar's company. Currently displayed on his Rolls Royce Phantom, AMS 1 is a regular sight on the streets of London where Lord Sugar's empire is based.

The team at Regplates have supplied private number plates to many football players across the league tables! From high profile Premiership Icons to rising stars of tomorrow, players have chosen to trust Regplates with their personalised number plate needs. The top 10 football number plates sold at auction are: WE57 HAM £ 57,000, AR53 NAL £ 36,000, V1 LLA £ 35,000, ALB 10N £ 19,000, DER 8Y £ 14,500, S41 NTS £ 11,500, PRE 570N £ 9,400, 1 WBA £ 8,400, W1 GAN £ 7,700, EVR 70N £ 6,400

Prince Naseem is the former WBO, WBC, IBF, Featherweight Champion, and European Bantamweight Champion of the world. Born in Sheffield in 1974, he rose to fame swiftly becoming European Bantamweight Champion aged just 20. NAS 1 is the perfect accessory for the former world champion who has a supercar collection to match!

Chris Eubank Lord of the Manor of Brighton was multiple world title belt holder for over 5 years and undefeated for his first 10 years in the ring as a professional boxer. Once the alleged owner of the ultimate boxing number plate 1 BOX, Regplates.com purchased the mark into stock reselling later to the owner of a successful telecommunications company.