What’s your car’s license plate worth to you? If it’s a low-digit Delaware plate, odds are it could fetch more than your house, like one sold recently by a Rehoboth-based auctioneer.
William “Butch” Emmert appeared on CNN’s “Smerconish” Saturday, August 26, 2018, with the number 20 plate he sold for a record $410,000; he said the low-numbered plate craze is pretty much a “Delaware thing.”
“Originally, in the mid-to-late ’50’s, these low-digit tags were traded to political figures and people of means as political favors, and then in the ’60’s, they started really trading for a fair amount of money,” said Emmert.
Emmert added numbers 1 through 3 are owned by political leaders, and number 4 isn’t available now, either.