Abu Dhabi trounces Delaware in license-plate auction
KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images Over the weekend, a vanity license plate with the single digit “1” (mentioned by Passport two weeks ago) sold for a record $14 million at an Abu Dhabi charity auction to raise money for traffic-accident victims. Meanwhile, in Delaware, where the law lets people transfer license plates, the tag with the single digit ...
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Over the weekend, a vanity license plate with the single digit “1” (mentioned by Passport two weeks ago) sold for a record $14 million at an Abu Dhabi charity auction to raise money for traffic-accident victims.
Meanwhile, in Delaware, where the law lets people transfer license plates, the tag with the single digit “6” was just auctioned off for a relatively paltry $675,000 to the family that bought “9” in 1993 for $185,000. (The number “1” is reserved for the state’s governor.)
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