Low digit license plates are a weird culture in Delaware. Auction sales of tags in the single digits have received over $100k bids. This website is one man’s chronicle of photographing each plate up to the number 3000 [TheDelaware3000.org](https://thedelaware3000.org/)
It’s Rhode Island. There are only like 10 cars there anyway. ^/j
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colonelcasey22 on
In Hong Kong, single character license plates receive 6 and 7 digit bids at government auctions. Just this week, a license plate of just “H” fetched a bid of over $2.5M USD.
Did you catch the license plate number of the car that hit you?
– “Nine” – Oh, my Aunt is German as well
Excellent-Tour6831 on
Am I the only one who thought the sailboat was a penis?
GotMoFans on
Does it belong to Baba Booey?
Johndeauxman on
Let me guess, a lawyers wife Karen with 1.29 kids and a snickerdoodle she hates that’s also a realtor in between her yoga and mimosas but somehow feels the need for a short bus to drive said 1.29 kids to the nanny (and no they don’t car pool to soccer etc, looks like freakin gmc dealership in the parking lot).Â
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JJ McCarthy
futureformerteacher on
Isn’t this a Bill Hicks joke? (But with phone numbers?)
dkwinsea on
Number 9. Number 9.
beanjuiced on
Omg! Wild! I just saw a Rhode Island plate for the first time the other day in WA state! I think it was one of the upgraded, cute ones though, and wasn’t a single digit lol
Edit: TIL single digit plates are weirdly sought-after thing? There’s crazy high bids for them in auctions. Thanks, fellow commenters!
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Hi-Neighbor!
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Jj mccarthy
Successful-Towel9288 on
If you install upside down, it’s a 6 .
sighthoundman on
TIL that not all states reserve the low-digit plates for elected/appointed officials and legislators.
For all I know, the ones that used to don’t any more either.
Hucksterprattler1 on
Ita not a nine. Its a comma. Lol
sectachrome on
I don’t approve of the haphazard application of registration stickers. This in combination with the single digit plate number is very unsettling.
ohako79 on
The phrase ‘Rhode Island Nine’ sounds too much like ‘Rock Island Line’. Now I have to go listen to old country music for an hour. Dang it!
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Worked with a guy who’s uncle was governor of IL long time ago and his aunt was assigned #2. The guy was trying to buy the plate from his cousin who currently had possession of it.
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See them all the time in Richmond, VA. Lots of families have been here for generations and were among the first to buy and register vehicles and so I routinely see single, 2 and 3 digit plates which I never see elsewhere in the state.
Certain_Departure716 on
My aunt‘s neighbor was Mike Colalillo, and he had a CMH with a big number 2. doesn’t really get much lower than that
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BlackWhiteCoke on
Why would anyone want a license plate that makes it EASIER to remember and be identified
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Dispatch: proceed with the license plate number..
Deputy: 9
Dispatch: please repeat the plate number.
Deputy: 9!
Dispatch: Sorry, you’re cutting out or something. All I’m getting is a 9.
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The offset makes it even stranger.
This must’ve cost a pretty penny.
Low digit license plates are a weird culture in Delaware. Auction sales of tags in the single digits have received over $100k bids. This website is one man’s chronicle of photographing each plate up to the number 3000 [TheDelaware3000.org](https://thedelaware3000.org/)
Reminds me of [this song.](https://youtu.be/tcUB-3lud60?si=MvESFK2TrazGGtNl)
It’s Rhode Island. There are only like 10 cars there anyway. ^/j
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In Hong Kong, single character license plates receive 6 and 7 digit bids at government auctions. Just this week, a license plate of just “H” fetched a bid of over $2.5M USD.
[https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3345036/h-races-riches-car-plate-fetches-hk20-million-hong-kong-auction](https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3345036/h-races-riches-car-plate-fetches-hk20-million-hong-kong-auction)
JJ is that you?
Noine
Did you catch the license plate number of the car that hit you?
– “Nine” – Oh, my Aunt is German as well
Am I the only one who thought the sailboat was a penis?
Does it belong to Baba Booey?
Let me guess, a lawyers wife Karen with 1.29 kids and a snickerdoodle she hates that’s also a realtor in between her yoga and mimosas but somehow feels the need for a short bus to drive said 1.29 kids to the nanny (and no they don’t car pool to soccer etc, looks like freakin gmc dealership in the parking lot).Â
JJ McCarthy
Isn’t this a Bill Hicks joke? (But with phone numbers?)
Number 9. Number 9.
Omg! Wild! I just saw a Rhode Island plate for the first time the other day in WA state! I think it was one of the upgraded, cute ones though, and wasn’t a single digit lol
Edit: TIL single digit plates are weirdly sought-after thing? There’s crazy high bids for them in auctions. Thanks, fellow commenters!
Hi-Neighbor!
Jj mccarthy
If you install upside down, it’s a 6 .
TIL that not all states reserve the low-digit plates for elected/appointed officials and legislators.
For all I know, the ones that used to don’t any more either.
Ita not a nine. Its a comma. Lol
I don’t approve of the haphazard application of registration stickers. This in combination with the single digit plate number is very unsettling.
The phrase ‘Rhode Island Nine’ sounds too much like ‘Rock Island Line’. Now I have to go listen to old country music for an hour. Dang it!
Worked with a guy who’s uncle was governor of IL long time ago and his aunt was assigned #2. The guy was trying to buy the plate from his cousin who currently had possession of it.
See them all the time in Richmond, VA. Lots of families have been here for generations and were among the first to buy and register vehicles and so I routinely see single, 2 and 3 digit plates which I never see elsewhere in the state.
My aunt‘s neighbor was Mike Colalillo, and he had a CMH with a big number 2. doesn’t really get much lower than that
Why would anyone want a license plate that makes it EASIER to remember and be identified
Dispatch: proceed with the license plate number..
Deputy: 9
Dispatch: please repeat the plate number.
Deputy: 9!
Dispatch: Sorry, you’re cutting out or something. All I’m getting is a 9.
Well. It is an island.