M155 FOX Number Plate For Sale For Leicester Fans

A woman selling her "Miss Fox" personalised number plate for £16,000 hopes female Leicester City fans might be interested.

Karen Wray, who lives in Durham, placed an advert in Monday's Mercury for her personalised number plate M155 FOX.

"I've been known as Fox since my husband chose it as a nickname for me about 30 years ago," she said.

"He came up with it and it just stuck.
About 10 years ago a friend of his saw the number plate advertised - my husband's reaction was 'how much?' but it was a must-have.

"He gave it to me for my birthday present.

"But now I'm buying a new car so I thought I would sell it and I hoped a Leicester City fan might be interested in it.

"I don't know how much my husband spent on it but I thought £16,000 was a good price to start at, based on conversations with people - and I'm happy to haggle."

Karen said she had been impressed with Leicester City's performance over the past couple of years and had high hopes the team would continue to recover from its rocky start to 2017

In the Premier League, which Leicester City won last season, the Foxes have struggled. Between New Year and February 12 they had one draw and five losses, putting them in the relegation zone.

But they have managed to win their last two matches, which were against Hull and Liverpool.

Karen said: "I'm heavily into football and I thought Leicester were absolutely amazing last season and it was great to see them doing so well.

"They're having a tough time this year but I'm a Chelsea fan so my team have been through a bad patch recently but managed to rebound again.

"I'm sure Leicester are going to do the same."

Last year Northern Irish builder David McMurray bought the number plate VAR 9Y hoping to sell it to the striker himself or else a devoted fan.

He bought it for £4,000 but the highest bid he got on eBay was for £870.

Rajesh Solanki, who lives in Leicester, tried to sell a similar plate - V9 RDY - to the striker.

But he was declined in a Twitter conversation with the Foxes striker's wife.

How close a series of letters or numbers are to a real name of word: if the match quality is high (and the numbers and letters are very convincing in making a popular word), the value of the registration plate will be higher. This means that a match like 5IMON, for the name Simon, will be worth a lot more than a more obscure set of letters and numbers that are not as convincing a match, such as S17 MMM for the name Sam.

The style of the plate: this means establishing if it is a new-style plate, an older-style format or if it is dateless or Irish, for instance. Other options are that it is a prefix-style plate or a suffix-style plate. New-style number plates, which have been produced since 2001, tend to be the least valuable because they are a bit less appealing to some collectors, plus the rule about not having plates that are newer than your car can also come into play, putting people off from buying a newer-style plate for their older car. Prefix-style number plates, which were in production between 1983 and 2001 can be more popular as more vehicles are entitled to have those licence numbers, and they may have fewer characters in total. Suffix-style plates, issued from 1963 to 1983 are relatively rare, which means they can attract higher prices than prefix-style plates and newer designs. Dateless number plates, also known as cherished number plates, were produced between 1903 and 1963 and are nearly always the most valuable number plate configurations; they have fewer digits and their dateless nature means that people can hide the age of their car. Irish number plates are similar to dateless number plates, especially because they don’t have a year identifier. They also tend to be cheaper than other types of vehicle registration plates.

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