The Most Expensive License Plate Ever Sold: A Record-Breaking Auction

In a thrilling auction that has left the car enthusiast community abuzz, a rare and unique license plate sold for a staggering amount of $24.3 million. The winner of this record-breaking sale was Jared, who correctly guessed the price of the plate.

The auction took place at a venue in California, where the plate in question had been owned by the same person for the past 50 years. This individual is described as a Silicon Valley dude, indicating that he is likely a tech industry professional or entrepreneur.

Speculation about the plate's value was high, with some estimates ranging from $750,000 to $5 million. However, it appears that Jared had a more accurate understanding of the plate's worth, and he took home the top prize.

But what makes this license plate so special? According to the auctioneer, the plate has an NFT (non-fungible token) associated with it, which may have contributed to its high value. The NFT is not explicitly explained in the text, but it is clear that it has a significant impact on the plate's worth.

As for why this license plate was so expensive, the auctioneer notes that the plate's rarity and scarcity are major factors in its value. The plate's unique combination of letters and numbers makes it highly sought after by collectors and enthusiasts.

The final round of the auction featured a special plate with the phrase "are mm" written on it. This plate was accompanied by an NFT, which may have added to its appeal for some bidders. Despite this, Jared emerged victorious, taking home the top prize.

In related news, Donut Media is offering a limited-edition license plate holder with the winner's name emblazoned on it. The company has also partnered with Zumiez to offer a range of car-themed merchandise, including shirts and hats.

The auction was widely covered on social media, with many enthusiasts expressing their excitement and surprise at the sale's outcome. As for Jared, he is now the proud owner of one of the most expensive license plates ever sold.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: encars are expensive enough but you might be surprised to find that license collectors will pay millions of dollars for rare license plates and today we're going head-to-head manoimano trying to guess the prices of actual license plate sales and figure out why they're so dang expensive like I kind of know how much a car is I have never ever ever priced out a license plate I'm gonna die oh all right you guys ready yeah I'm ready first up on the list is a license plate from North Carolina that dates back to 1913. this is the first license plate ever issued in the state of North Carolina and it's made of porcelain oh as you can imagine not many of these porcelain plates survive for very long this example is in pristine condition with a number reading 7160. is this the actual photo of it because this looks like they made this in Minecraft me and Jared can have whiteboards and then no one can have paper just take the paper all right so how much do you guys think this North Carolina 1913 license plate goes for North Carolina um I don't think the state of North Carolina really has a lot of like you might I think it does dude I don't know Google has a camera out there this is a shot in the dark okay let's reveal them wow we're forty thousand eighty thousand ten thousand all right so this is crazy uh as much as I don't want Jeremiah to win he got it dead on it's 10 it's literally impossible to stump Jeremiah in any of these games I tried messing with the rules last time it didn't work I have no option but to give you double points because that's what I wrote and my rules if you get dead on you get double points oh yeah baby put it on the human skin the skew men I don't feel bad for getting that wrong how the hell would I know that how much is this Old Pine Cone I don't know the pine cone Market is wild okay all right cool good job this weekend is the wicked big UFC fight happening in Boston and if you're looking to score a big win of your own Penny sponsor DraftKings has a great offer for you new customers can sign up using a promo code donut right now and bet just five dollars on any of this weekend matches receive a hundred and fifty dollars and bonus bet instantly stay in on the action and use a hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets on DraftKings same fight parlay it lets you combine multiple bets together from the same fight for a shot at even bigger payout and if sports betting is not yet available in your state you can still join in on all the fun with DraftKings daily fantasy download the DraftKings Sport Book app right now new customers use promo code donut and bet just five dollars on any wager and get 150 in bonus that's instantly that's promo code donut only at DraftKings Sportsbook next license plate on the list is another American Vintage plate this one however is from Alaska and it's made in 1921. oh that's a nice one that is nice also made of porcelain and plates from Alaska from this era are even more rare because as you can imagine not many roads were paid back then a lot of little chips and dings and stuff who knows the last one was 10 grand well with that in mind yeah what the hell is this game all right ready if I said forty five thousand I said ten thousand and one dollar I said eleven thousand dollars all right the true price of the Alaska 1921 license plate sixty Grand what Jerry wins again dude Alaska Isn't that cool well that's just cool you shut your moose I'm ready Joe on to the next what's your favorite state to vacation in Georgia Florida actually California Hawaii you got it this plate is from before Hawaii was a state from 1922. oh Hawaii look at that whoa that's a cool font dude that's a sick Farm sick font as you can imagine it was really hard to transport cars there so there were very few cars meaning there was not that many license plates from this era I'm gonna go big on this one yeah me too why not ready yeah reveal wow okay dude two hundred thousand dollars people got dumb money people are proud of Hawaii the true price of the Hawaii 1922 plate yeah 30 grand Jeremiah one no no like Alaska was 60 Grand yeah Alaska is 60 Grand this one's not in very good condition but it's cool it's Hawaii I know I know but but it's Alaska it's Alaska despite all my efforts the score Nolan zero James zero Jeremiah four great these are examples of one type of license plate that gains value from being vintage there's another type of rare license plate that people go crazy for at auctions ones with interesting combinations of letters and numbers for our next round we're going to be focusing on this type of plate so as you'll learn you know like when these for these plates first came out they started with A1 and then worked their way from there excellent sauce as more cars needed more plates they added more numbers the smaller combination of letters and numbers means more rare more scarce more money I'm gonna guess before I even see it these next plates come from England this j4 license plate is special because it was issued to a governor owned vehicle driven by lieutenant governor air Chief Marshall sir Stephen Dalton so you'll be guessing in British Pounds what's the symbol for a pound great it's like an L British it's like yeah isn't it like this which like has like a well I don't know what that is bro it doesn't have like some squigglies underneath it I do know that British ones from like old magazines they would sell license plates in the classifieds of like British tuner magazines so you can get one that says like spicy all right we ready yeah ready 100 000 Jesus Christ fifty thousand pounds fourteen thousand I mean with a little smiley face yeah so the true price for the j4 British license plate 410 000 dollars so I think it's Jerry yeah you're 360 off your 390 off so very close yeah but Jerry gets wow really close Round Guys yeah it's really great yeah I just can't with these people man British people or uh right I think you guys are going to be pretty psyched on the next oh I know what this is gonna be the next plate on the list is another British one this one reading F1 F1 cool yeah that's sick I give you all the numbers but they're jumbled up and you have to rearrange them and the closest too so this is like a Price is Right game for Scrabble right yeah yeah so there are six numbers okay zero zero four zero four zero that's it I should have picked a price with more numbers that's a four uh-oh up too late you already put it on I'm doing a bunch of options right now am I not allowed to do that no you get one one all right let's see those prices I said 440 thousand dollars you said forty four thousand well yeah you only had one two three four I gave you six numbers well then an extra zero then so four hundred and forty thousand I don't know you said forty four thousand I I did I can I be honest with you I thought we were scrambling what the what did you what the plate was saying the plate says F1 yeah I thought it was it was going to be like boobs you don't say anything like that zero zero yeah it's like a calculator and then I I was settling I was like oh that's it oh can you show me those numbers one more time and you you get 44 000. that's what you wrote oh come on the true price is 440 000. yeah James gets it nice right on the money so I get double point oh yeah all right the last British plate on the list is very special it is the A1 plate A1 A.I this was the first license plate ever issued in London came out in 1903 that plates from 1903 for over 100 years it was spot sold made it on different cars so you'll be guessing in British Pounds again GBP baby do we get bonus points if we know who was the king or queen yeah sure why not let's see those numbers and kings and queens we have five hundred thousand dollars two million and Seventeen million what did you say King Charles okay no one got that one right it's not Austin Powers is 10 million so another point to James oh I've only missed it by seven million you missed it by 8 million all right there are actually people who make a living off of this buying and selling plates license plate auctions are very popular in oil rich countries obviously and there's one place where these rare plates on average get more at auction than the rest of the world first to say the country UAE yep you got it I played with four numbers is rare and will likely cost you a couple thousand dollars okay okay three numbers is even more rare if you go for hundreds of thousand dollars two is above a million wow but if you have the chance to buy a single digit license plate it's gonna cost you an insane amount oh this one aa9 just sold at auction guess how much it so that's a three character one yeah no or is that I think you stand for Arab Emirates no because Emirates is spelled with e testing you so just so you know this these are in US dollars because I didn't convert it okay so is this considered a single or triple I I would guess this is a a triple but it's a very coveted one well you told us at the start of this that triples were tens of thousands of dollars doubles were like you told us the range so use that I know but I feel like that's a you're trying to trying to trick us yes all right yeah I guess 100 million dollars in a dinosaur I said a million bucks a million it's triple this one sold for 9.5 million dollars holy crap I'm way off 30 million dollars written first 100 million dollars is insane amount of money next up is another super rare license plate this is also from the UAE two two okay so that's a true single okay A9 win for that so this is gonna be like I mean but how crazy could these guys be right I mean they bought soccer all right just to give you a little hint uh-huh these guys are really powerful Executives with a ton of money yep not a lot of them want to be considered number two oh 10 million dollars and 25 million dollars yeah yeah number two sold at this auction yeah for 6.2 million dollars no one is on the board just change my man we'll put numbers on the board can you guys guess what the last UAE license plate is one oh that's six all right so this is the last plate from the UAE this is the creme de La Creme Nolan as winner talk to talk us through your thought process I'm just going to say 100 million dollars are you out of paper James do you need more paper no I'm good we only have two more after this so this is your chance to catch up let's see those I barely know her 740 million dollars pterodactyl 70 million dollars and 100 million dollars yeah yeah so the number one sold in the UAE for 14.5 million dollars that's it yeah don't change whatever dude so as we learned scarcity and Rarity of the characters make a plate really expensive but in the final round of this game we're gonna be focusing on vanity license plates so basically if uh Fraser letter cotton number combination has meaning to someone they're going to want to pay more for it the second to last played on this list is from California nice I know that place yeah oh man so this is has been owned by the same guy for the last 50 years he's like a Silicon Valley dude so he finally put it up for sale these are speculative but this is what he's asking for it the plate is currently listed on the Golden State's budding custom plate market for the price that's all it says I'm gonna guess that it's probably not as insane as like I know the guy who has three series he wants to sell it for 40 Grand all right we all good hold on sorry what is this guy asking for his play we have 750 000 299 000 and 5 million dollars the true price is that's what I'd pay two million dollars making Nolan hey good job Nolan no one's got two points we only have one more plate on the list are you guys ready for this one this is a doozy we love doozies around here it's the most expensive plate ever sold if it sells but luckily it comes with an nft nice the plate reads are mm and I'll show you this is the nft right oh cool why is that cool I'm being so accused so what do we think this goes for it would be the most expensive yeah if it's more expensive than everything we've guessed so far yes good thing I remember all those numbers well I do because I kept all my things oh I threw mine across the garage all right let's see those numbers 111 million plus a snake 41 million and 69 million nice nice nice the true price for mm license plate 24.3 million dollars Jared takes it t-ocho eight million Subs I can't believe that we're here thank you guys so much for your support for everybody who's been here since before we had a million to everybody who came in the last million this is all for you to celebrate this Monumental moment as always we have an 8 million sub sticker available at donutmedia.com so you can tell everybody that you were here now go to donate.com get you one they are super limited release I'm pretty sure we're only gonna sell them for a week so don't sleep on it guys thank you so much again I love you if you want to play at home go to donutmetia.com and get your license plate guessing game home Edition and while you're there pick up your license plate holder we got a few options if you're not first or second hilarious I'd rather be driving hilarious you can also get shirts and hats and you can buy all that stuff now at Zumiez anywhere in North America do you want to know what you want Jer yeah oh yeah I'd like to hey congratulations boys thank you great thank you great game honor I feel I'm just honored that I also have my own plate here they're really good at guessing Sumpter or you guys are just really all right congrats Jerry okay what do I get cranberry juice thank you guys so much see you next timecars are expensive enough but you might be surprised to find that license collectors will pay millions of dollars for rare license plates and today we're going head-to-head manoimano trying to guess the prices of actual license plate sales and figure out why they're so dang expensive like I kind of know how much a car is I have never ever ever priced out a license plate I'm gonna die oh all right you guys ready yeah I'm ready first up on the list is a license plate from North Carolina that dates back to 1913. this is the first license plate ever issued in the state of North Carolina and it's made of porcelain oh as you can imagine not many of these porcelain plates survive for very long this example is in pristine condition with a number reading 7160. is this the actual photo of it because this looks like they made this in Minecraft me and Jared can have whiteboards and then no one can have paper just take the paper all right so how much do you guys think this North Carolina 1913 license plate goes for North Carolina um I don't think the state of North Carolina really has a lot of like you might I think it does dude I don't know Google has a camera out there this is a shot in the dark okay let's reveal them wow we're forty thousand eighty thousand ten thousand all right so this is crazy uh as much as I don't want Jeremiah to win he got it dead on it's 10 it's literally impossible to stump Jeremiah in any of these games I tried messing with the rules last time it didn't work I have no option but to give you double points because that's what I wrote and my rules if you get dead on you get double points oh yeah baby put it on the human skin the skew men I don't feel bad for getting that wrong how the hell would I know that how much is this Old Pine Cone I don't know the pine cone Market is wild okay all right cool good job this weekend is the wicked big UFC fight happening in Boston and if you're looking to score a big win of your own Penny sponsor DraftKings has a great offer for you new customers can sign up using a promo code donut right now and bet just five dollars on any of this weekend matches receive a hundred and fifty dollars and bonus bet instantly stay in on the action and use a hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets on DraftKings same fight parlay it lets you combine multiple bets together from the same fight for a shot at even bigger payout and if sports betting is not yet available in your state you can still join in on all the fun with DraftKings daily fantasy download the DraftKings Sport Book app right now new customers use promo code donut and bet just five dollars on any wager and get 150 in bonus that's instantly that's promo code donut only at DraftKings Sportsbook next license plate on the list is another American Vintage plate this one however is from Alaska and it's made in 1921. oh that's a nice one that is nice also made of porcelain and plates from Alaska from this era are even more rare because as you can imagine not many roads were paid back then a lot of little chips and dings and stuff who knows the last one was 10 grand well with that in mind yeah what the hell is this game all right ready if I said forty five thousand I said ten thousand and one dollar I said eleven thousand dollars all right the true price of the Alaska 1921 license plate sixty Grand what Jerry wins again dude Alaska Isn't that cool well that's just cool you shut your moose I'm ready Joe on to the next what's your favorite state to vacation in Georgia Florida actually California Hawaii you got it this plate is from before Hawaii was a state from 1922. oh Hawaii look at that whoa that's a cool font dude that's a sick Farm sick font as you can imagine it was really hard to transport cars there so there were very few cars meaning there was not that many license plates from this era I'm gonna go big on this one yeah me too why not ready yeah reveal wow okay dude two hundred thousand dollars people got dumb money people are proud of Hawaii the true price of the Hawaii 1922 plate yeah 30 grand Jeremiah one no no like Alaska was 60 Grand yeah Alaska is 60 Grand this one's not in very good condition but it's cool it's Hawaii I know I know but but it's Alaska it's Alaska despite all my efforts the score Nolan zero James zero Jeremiah four great these are examples of one type of license plate that gains value from being vintage there's another type of rare license plate that people go crazy for at auctions ones with interesting combinations of letters and numbers for our next round we're going to be focusing on this type of plate so as you'll learn you know like when these for these plates first came out they started with A1 and then worked their way from there excellent sauce as more cars needed more plates they added more numbers the smaller combination of letters and numbers means more rare more scarce more money I'm gonna guess before I even see it these next plates come from England this j4 license plate is special because it was issued to a governor owned vehicle driven by lieutenant governor air Chief Marshall sir Stephen Dalton so you'll be guessing in British Pounds what's the symbol for a pound great it's like an L British it's like yeah isn't it like this which like has like a well I don't know what that is bro it doesn't have like some squigglies underneath it I do know that British ones from like old magazines they would sell license plates in the classifieds of like British tuner magazines so you can get one that says like spicy all right we ready yeah ready 100 000 Jesus Christ fifty thousand pounds fourteen thousand I mean with a little smiley face yeah so the true price for the j4 British license plate 410 000 dollars so I think it's Jerry yeah you're 360 off your 390 off so very close yeah but Jerry gets wow really close Round Guys yeah it's really great yeah I just can't with these people man British people or uh right I think you guys are going to be pretty psyched on the next oh I know what this is gonna be the next plate on the list is another British one this one reading F1 F1 cool yeah that's sick I give you all the numbers but they're jumbled up and you have to rearrange them and the closest too so this is like a Price is Right game for Scrabble right yeah yeah so there are six numbers okay zero zero four zero four zero that's it I should have picked a price with more numbers that's a four uh-oh up too late you already put it on I'm doing a bunch of options right now am I not allowed to do that no you get one one all right let's see those prices I said 440 thousand dollars you said forty four thousand well yeah you only had one two three four I gave you six numbers well then an extra zero then so four hundred and forty thousand I don't know you said forty four thousand I I did I can I be honest with you I thought we were scrambling what the what did you what the plate was saying the plate says F1 yeah I thought it was it was going to be like boobs you don't say anything like that zero zero yeah it's like a calculator and then I I was settling I was like oh that's it oh can you show me those numbers one more time and you you get 44 000. that's what you wrote oh come on the true price is 440 000. yeah James gets it nice right on the money so I get double point oh yeah all right the last British plate on the list is very special it is the A1 plate A1 A.I this was the first license plate ever issued in London came out in 1903 that plates from 1903 for over 100 years it was spot sold made it on different cars so you'll be guessing in British Pounds again GBP baby do we get bonus points if we know who was the king or queen yeah sure why not let's see those numbers and kings and queens we have five hundred thousand dollars two million and Seventeen million what did you say King Charles okay no one got that one right it's not Austin Powers is 10 million so another point to James oh I've only missed it by seven million you missed it by 8 million all right there are actually people who make a living off of this buying and selling plates license plate auctions are very popular in oil rich countries obviously and there's one place where these rare plates on average get more at auction than the rest of the world first to say the country UAE yep you got it I played with four numbers is rare and will likely cost you a couple thousand dollars okay okay three numbers is even more rare if you go for hundreds of thousand dollars two is above a million wow but if you have the chance to buy a single digit license plate it's gonna cost you an insane amount oh this one aa9 just sold at auction guess how much it so that's a three character one yeah no or is that I think you stand for Arab Emirates no because Emirates is spelled with e testing you so just so you know this these are in US dollars because I didn't convert it okay so is this considered a single or triple I I would guess this is a a triple but it's a very coveted one well you told us at the start of this that triples were tens of thousands of dollars doubles were like you told us the range so use that I know but I feel like that's a you're trying to trying to trick us yes all right yeah I guess 100 million dollars in a dinosaur I said a million bucks a million it's triple this one sold for 9.5 million dollars holy crap I'm way off 30 million dollars written first 100 million dollars is insane amount of money next up is another super rare license plate this is also from the UAE two two okay so that's a true single okay A9 win for that so this is gonna be like I mean but how crazy could these guys be right I mean they bought soccer all right just to give you a little hint uh-huh these guys are really powerful Executives with a ton of money yep not a lot of them want to be considered number two oh 10 million dollars and 25 million dollars yeah yeah number two sold at this auction yeah for 6.2 million dollars no one is on the board just change my man we'll put numbers on the board can you guys guess what the last UAE license plate is one oh that's six all right so this is the last plate from the UAE this is the creme de La Creme Nolan as winner talk to talk us through your thought process I'm just going to say 100 million dollars are you out of paper James do you need more paper no I'm good we only have two more after this so this is your chance to catch up let's see those I barely know her 740 million dollars pterodactyl 70 million dollars and 100 million dollars yeah yeah so the number one sold in the UAE for 14.5 million dollars that's it yeah don't change whatever dude so as we learned scarcity and Rarity of the characters make a plate really expensive but in the final round of this game we're gonna be focusing on vanity license plates so basically if uh Fraser letter cotton number combination has meaning to someone they're going to want to pay more for it the second to last played on this list is from California nice I know that place yeah oh man so this is has been owned by the same guy for the last 50 years he's like a Silicon Valley dude so he finally put it up for sale these are speculative but this is what he's asking for it the plate is currently listed on the Golden State's budding custom plate market for the price that's all it says I'm gonna guess that it's probably not as insane as like I know the guy who has three series he wants to sell it for 40 Grand all right we all good hold on sorry what is this guy asking for his play we have 750 000 299 000 and 5 million dollars the true price is that's what I'd pay two million dollars making Nolan hey good job Nolan no one's got two points we only have one more plate on the list are you guys ready for this one this is a doozy we love doozies around here it's the most expensive plate ever sold if it sells but luckily it comes with an nft nice the plate reads are mm and I'll show you this is the nft right oh cool why is that cool I'm being so accused so what do we think this goes for it would be the most expensive yeah if it's more expensive than everything we've guessed so far yes good thing I remember all those numbers well I do because I kept all my things oh I threw mine across the garage all right let's see those numbers 111 million plus a snake 41 million and 69 million nice nice nice the true price for mm license plate 24.3 million dollars Jared takes it t-ocho eight million Subs I can't believe that we're here thank you guys so much for your support for everybody who's been here since before we had a million to everybody who came in the last million this is all for you to celebrate this Monumental moment as always we have an 8 million sub sticker available at donutmedia.com so you can tell everybody that you were here now go to donate.com get you one they are super limited release I'm pretty sure we're only gonna sell them for a week so don't sleep on it guys thank you so much again I love you if you want to play at home go to donutmetia.com and get your license plate guessing game home Edition and while you're there pick up your license plate holder we got a few options if you're not first or second hilarious I'd rather be driving hilarious you can also get shirts and hats and you can buy all that stuff now at Zumiez anywhere in North America do you want to know what you want Jer yeah oh yeah I'd like to hey congratulations boys thank you great thank you great game honor I feel I'm just honored that I also have my own plate here they're really good at guessing Sumpter or you guys are just really all right congrats Jerry okay what do I get cranberry juice thank you guys so much see you next time