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Author: Tao Jiaxin
2021-03-01 22:27
The last update date: 2021-03-01 22:31
The auction of special license plates has always attracted people's attention, and some people often spend a lot of money for "good intentions."
Checking the records of the Transport Department, since the first auction of vehicle registration marks in 1973, four license plates have been bought at a high price of tens of millions.
On March 19, 1994, businessman Yang Shoucheng bought the No. 9 license plate, which was owned by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Tang Zhaojian, for as much as 13 million yuan. It was once the most expensive in the world. At that time, it was enough to buy 3.5 two-bedroom units in Taikoo Shing.
The No. 9 license plate's local record was held until 2008, when it was broken by the No. 18 license plate. The wealthy businessman Zhang Chengguang, who had the title of "Stanley Share God", won 16.50 million yuan at the Chinese New Year license plate auction.
However, it was overwritten by the No. 28 license plate in 2016 for RMB 18.03 million. At that time, it was enough to buy 5 three-bedroom units at Kingswood Villas in Tin Shui Wai. It is still the most expensive license plate. The buyer's identity is mysterious, and it is held by an overseas registered company. Yes, it is set on a famous Rolls-Royce car worth more than 8 million Hong Kong dollars.
Among the number 1 to 10 license plates, the government only retains the number 1 license plate and puts it on the car of the Commissioner of Police. It is said that this is the reason why the Commissioner is called "a brother".
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The Transport Department announced today (1st) that the Lunar New Year vehicle registration mark auction will resume this year. It will be held next Sunday (7th). At that time, 45 vehicle registration marks will be publicly auctioned, one of which is a customized vehicle registration mark "W ".
Yan Wenhan, the person in charge of the Quality Lucky License Plate Center, expects that the most sold price is more than 13 million yuan, which is the same as the "V" license plate sold at the 2017 Lunar New Year license plate auction.
Extended reading: New Year's license plate auction will hold a single letter "W" next Sunday, expect at least 13 million transactions
No. 1 license plate belongs to the Commissioner of Police
Hong Kong introduced license plate auctions in 1973, and the funds obtained were used for charity.
In the beginning, all license plates 1 to 10 were used by Hong Kong government officials. Among them, the license plate No. 1 was owned by the Commissioner of Police of Hong Kong. It is also said that the Commissioner of Police was called "Yi Ge" because of this, and it has been used today.
However, the Transport Department later auctioned all the license plates of all units except for the No. 1 license plate. Currently, the license plates of No. 2-9 are all held by wealthy businessmen.
For example, after the long-term car of the Financial Secretary was changed to "FS", the number 2 license plate was purchased by businessman Wang Mingwei for 9.5 million yuan in 1993.
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"28" 18.1 million sold at a sky-high price, the buyer's identity is mysterious
In addition to single-digit license plates, single-letter license plates, 8-suffix license plates that are homonymous with "fa", and numeric license plates without initials are all popular.
Checking the records of the Transport Department, the "28" license plate, which is homonymous with "Yi Fa", was sold for 18.1 million yuan on February 21, 2016, which was the highest transaction price in history. At that time, it was enough to buy 5 three bedrooms at Kingswood Villas in Tin Shui Wai unit.
The buyer's identity was mysterious, and it was purchased by a Yucheng Holdings Co., Ltd. Because it was an overseas registered company, the media could not find out the owner's information, and only knew that it was attached to a Rolls-Royce car worth more than 8 million yuan.
Yang Shoucheng won the No. 9 license plate for 13 million yuan in 1994, which became a story.
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The "18" license plate with the homophonic "Real Fat" was sold for 16.5 million in 2008, ranking second on the transaction price list. The "V" license plate symbolizing "Victory" was also sold by Emperor Yang Shoucheng, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Emperor Group. The purchased "9" license plates were all sold for 13 million yuan, tied for third place.
The No. 9 license plate that Yang Shoucheng won on March 19, 1994 was the first Hong Kong license plate to be sold for more than 10 million yuan, breaking the previous year's record for No. 2 license plate transactions.
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The ``XX'' license plate has a paragraph, so the 2020 auction was cancelled due to the epidemic
Looking at the information, before 1951, Hong Kong's license plates did not have English letters. They were only issued from 1 to 9999. They included commercial license plates with white letters on a black background, bus and minibus license plates with white letters on a red background, and black letters on a white background. Private license plate.
In 1951, after 10,000 license plates from 1 to 9999 were issued, the prefix "HK" (HK1-HK9999) was added before the number of the license plate, followed by the prefix "XX" (XX1-XX9999).
The appearance of the prefix "XX" is said to be that the superintendent who issued the license plate found out that the prefix "HK" was used up, so he typed two crosses ("XX"). It originally meant to use two letters at random but was responsible for issuing license plates But thought it was using the prefix "XX".
Therefore, after the prefixes of "XX" were exhausted, the authorities decided to issue license plates from the prefix "AA" in alphabetical order.
In 2020, the Lunar New Year was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the New Year license plate auction was finally cancelled. At that time, the focus was on "XX" license plates, which were expected to be sold at sky-high prices.
Nothing like the 663, 96 and VV1 of the same period "resurrected" this year.
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