A rare single-letter license plate has been sold for £ 1.45 million in Hong Kong.
The number plate, which simply has the letter 's', was one of the 49 number plates for grabbing the annual Lunar New Year auction that is held today by the transport department of the city state.
While bidding was opened for only HK $ 5,000 (£ 510), a potential bidder raised the price at HK $ 8 million (£ 820,000), before it was eventually sold at HK $ 14.2 million (£ 1.45 million ).
The 'S' number plate went for so much money because of the association with the DC character Superman, who is wearing the letter on his chest, according to the insurance broker Automate Wealth Management, established in Hong Kong.
The company told the South China Morning Post that it expected that the board would sell for HK $ 10 million.
Another number plate, which had the number 88, went for HK $ 11.4 million (£ 1.16 million) in a bidding war that lasted 13 consecutive minutes.
In Chinese culture, number 8 is associated with the word 'fortuin'.
Last year a driver handed a small fortune after he was the successful bidder on the 'happiest' license plates, 888-888.
The 's' number plate went for so much money because of the association with the DC character Superman, who is wearing the letter on his chest, according to the insurance broker Automate Wealth Management, established in Hong Kong
The highly sought after records (photo) went to the winning bidder who spent $ 230,000
An anonymous buyer placed the winning bid of $ 230,000 on the adapted Victorian number plates at an auction.
The 888-888 plates have not changed ownership for 30 years.
The lucky plates sold almost five times more than the Ritzy Mercedes-Benz CL600 V12 that they had decorated.
The auction had bright bidding with buyers who are present in the room, on telephones and online, so that two bidders were ultimately fought.
The Donington auction house told Daily Mail Australia that the sale set a record for adapted numeric records in Victoria.
The previous top amount, which was set in 2022, was for the 911-911 'of the plates that sold for $ 53,000.
Donington -director Cameron Sabine said that custom plates are now considered a 'astute investment' with the number eight very popular.
'Eight is being sought in numeric plates and with these plates [888-888] They become the bees knees because you can't get more 'eight' than that, “he said.
