The DVLA's June auction was a live venue event held at the Casa Hotel in Chesterfield from Wednesday 21st June to Friday 23rd June 2023.
If DVLA sticks to its current plan, this will be the last but one live venue auction. After the final live event in October, It is intended that all future DVLA auctions will be held online.
The winner
Once again, the star of the show was an 'O' registration. Selling for an all-in price of £73,268, 51 O resumed the run of 'O' numbers that have dominated recent auctions. If it hadn't been for the strong showing of excellent 5 PS in May's auction, this would have been the seventh in the 'O' series to take top spot. We said in our last auction report that we expected the 'O's to fight back and 51 O did exactly that. This series is certainly very popular with bidders.
Honourable mentions
Completing the top five were 7 OOR (£34,491), 9 YT (£32,950), OO08 OOO (£32,180) and WIG 1 (£31,024). While the follically challenged WIG 1 has the obvious benefits of the number 1 and the perfect spelling of a word, the others were, perhaps, less obvious at a glance. OO08 OOO is of a kind we have seen do well before. This kind of symmetry, consisting of just two basic character shapes, is always visually striking. Although it screams 'private number plate', it gives very little away and is sure to get onlookers guessing.
Names, words and phrases
Representations of names varied in quality of visual effect. Among those we noticed were: ARJ 5N (£15,745), D21 ANA (£13,177), ROB 31E (£11,764), J41 SON (£9,710), DAV 31D (£9,068), WAT 90N (£7,527) and C41 ROL (£7,399).
SYR 11A (£23,192) was a nice example of an imperfect representation that is still instantly obvious despite its slight deviation from "Syria", while M411 CTY was a nice result for a Manchester City fan at £5,473.
We'll finish with NOT 284D (£11,636), which may not be visually perfect but it's certainly not bad!
The June auctions saw 998 numbers sold and two numbers unsold. Bidders spent a total of £4,600,997, with £4,305,220 going to the government in revenue.
DVLA's next auction will be another online, timed event and will take place on Wednesday 26th July to Tuesday 1st August 2023.
| Plate | Price * |
|---|---|
| 51 O | £73,268 |
| 7 OOR | £34,491 |
| 9 YT | £32,950 |
| OO08 OOO | £32,180 |
| WIG 1 | £31,024 |
| 1 KWR | £25,246 |
| SYR 11A | £23,192 |
| 500 L | £21,908 |
| UPS 2 | £21,908 |
| 911 DAK | £20,881 |
| 92 FM | £20,881 |
| 11 YX | £20,624 |
| 117 M | £19,468 |
| 10 RLA | £19,340 |
| 1 OVB | £17,414 |
| 111 UDO | £17,414 |
| 911 MJP | £16,900 |
| 1 VCL | £16,772 |
| 3 LLS | £16,515 |
| 1982 AV | £16,258 |
| 7 SHH | £16,258 |
| 105 X | £16,002 |
| ARJ 5N | £15,745 |
| 70 OV | £15,745 |
| 1 MWX | £15,488 |
| 1 HSU | £14,461 |
| 29 OB | £14,461 |
| 140 A | £14,204 |
| 1 ODH | £14,204 |
| 74 XX | £14,204 |
| 102 C | £13,947 |
| 198 G | £13,562 |
| 1987 S | £13,434 |
| 3 SVJ | £13,434 |
| D21 ANA | £13,177 |
| 1959 DB | £13,177 |
| F8 OOO | £13,177 |
| 74 DAM | £13,048 |
| IG 21 | £13,048 |
| 21 ASD | £12,920 |
| 141 JB | £12,920 |
| 7 OJR | £12,920 |
| 1111 OW | £12,920 |
| 135 SW | £12,920 |
| 24 VB | £12,920 |
| 6 RAA | £12,792 |
| 7 RJN | £12,663 |
| MSS 14 | £12,535 |
| 30 AJC | £12,406 |
| XCW 1 | £12,278 |
* Prices include fees and taxes.
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