Royal Scam? UK license plate "D1ANA" expected to fetch £100,000 at COYS auction

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Royal Scam? UK license plate "D1ANA" expected to fetch £100,000 at COYS auction – UK Auto News

Posted on 01 December 2009 Tags: a-friend-via, a-number-plate, among-the-items, auction, british, celebrities, entry, follow-the-jump, license-plate, number-plates, press, press-release, royal-scam, uk auto news, while-it-might

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Coys of Kensington will be hosting a True Greats auction on December 1, and among the items for sale will be an MG service manual (Lot 1), a Corvette poster (Lot 61), and some pre-WWII driving gauntlets (Lot 81). Oh, and there’ll also be the matter of Lot 142, a number plate reading “D1ANA” expected to pull down �100,000. That’s $164,174 to us here in the American system.

That’s no small beer, certainly, yet while it might appear to be impressive, other less obviously impressive number plates have recently been fetching ridiculous amounts: aside from the UK tuner who bought the “F 1″ plate for $870,000, earlier this year a gent – also in the UK – bought “1 D” for $513,000. And it’s not just our British pals in that game: “D1ANA” is far less fetching than the number “6,” which was bought by a Delaware man for $675,000. So there.

The preliminary viewing was today, but it’s not too late to get in on the auction. Follow the jump for the press release, and get your pounds and pence ready.

[Source: Coys]

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