1 Million Pound Dubai Number Plate And Celebrity Number Plates

But this special number plate, displaying Y44 4LAH, could earn two friends a cool £1million.

The pair - Araf Sultan and Roy Chauhan - bought the number plate for just £350 14 years ago.

Now the pair are preparing to pitch the plate, which reads Yes Allah, at auction in United Arab Emirates, hoping to fetch around £1m.

It comes after a plate displaying AB11 DBU, reading Abu Dhabi, sold for £750,000 at an auction in the oil-rich Middle Eastern country.

Mr Chauhan, aged 45, of Brockhurst Crescent in Walsall said: "We bought the plate for novelty for £350, jut a bit of fun.

"We knew thought it could possibly worth so much money, but after seeing the other plate go for so much, we think it could be worth £1m.

"It is an exciting time, and we're looking at auctioneers in the country now."

Mr Chauhan believes residents in the UAE buy UK number plates for when they visit the UK, to display on their cars.

He said: "Abu Dhabi is a place where money is no object.

"Where people want something, they usually get it. We think something like this will be sought after."

But what’s also interesting is that a lot of these celebs are superstitious about their vehicle number plates, so much, so that they have the same number combination for all their vehicles. A personalized vehicle registration number may come at its own cost, but then again, moolah has never been a deterrent for our celebs, has it?
However, inflation, recession or demonetization, nothing seems to deter Hyderabad’s rich but not necessarily famous from winning auspicious vehicle number plates at RTO auctions, never mind their exorbitant price tags.

Recently Balayya’s daughters gifted a posh car to him is a known news. But what is surprising news is that Balayya and his team brought the number plate TS 90EU 0001 for a whopping sum of Rs 7.77 lakhs for NBK’s new Bently car (Rs 3.11 crores)

While bids have skyrocketed, the most popular numerical sequences continue to be variations of the number 9: series with 0009, 0099, 0001 and so on.

So what are the top selling number plates in the UK? The DVLA has been selling private plates to UK motorists since 1989. During this time, there have been a number of records set, but most of the top 10 have been bought in the past 15 years. Here’s what currently makes the list:

25 0 – A Ferrari dealer bought this for £518k in 2014. It is now on a £10 million Ferrari 250 SWB.
F 1 – A businessman, Afzal Khan, bought this for £440k in 2008 and put it on his McLaren-Mercedes SLR.
S 1 – This was bought in 2008 for £404k by an anonymous buyer.
1 D – Businessman Nabil Bishara bought this plate in 2009 (before One Direction was formed, so it is not a reference to the band) for £352k.
M 1 – Businessman Mike McCoomb bought this number plate in 2006 for £331k, apparently for his son, who was 10 at the time.
VIP 1 – Chelsea owner and businessman Roman Abramovich bought this plate for £285k in 2006.
51 NGH – This number plate, which looks like the surname Singh, was sold in 2006 for £254k.
1 RH – Businessman Robert Haverson bought this in 2006 for £247k.
K1 NGS – This reg plate, which looks like the word “kings”, was bought anonymously in 1993 for £231k.
1 0 – This very simple but striking number plate was bought anonymously in 2009 for £170k.

These are large amounts of money, but they are all small compared to the top-selling number plates found in other parts of the world. Abu Dhabi, in the UAE, has the record for the most expensive number plate ever sold. That number plate was a simple “1”. It was bought in 2008 by businessman Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri for £7.25 million.

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