Event: 2018 Shannons Melbourne Spring Classic Auction
Date: Monday 17th September 2018 @ 7pm
Location: 40 Corporate Drive, Heatherton, Victoria
17 Victorian heritage number plates and 1 Victorian Bicentennial number plate were offered at this auction and all plates sold under the hammer.
Patronage was less than usual which reflected the low number of bids and overall pullback in prices.
247 was the lowest heritage plate on offer and was tipped to sell for in excess of $200,000.00. We ran our usual competitions across our social media accounts to guess the sale price and the vast majority of estimates were in excess of $250,000.00. It was an anticlimatic result when the hammer fell on the 7th and winning bid of $175,000.00.
5 digit plates were the biggest disappointment selling on average for half the prices of the last Victorian auction.
4 digit plate sales were reasonably strong with 8778 achieving $74,000.
A total of $1,325,500.00 of plates were sold on the night.
Note that a 5% buyers premium is charged on top of the prices listed below.
3 digit heritage plates:
- 247 – $175,000 (7 bids)
- 460 – $140,000 (7 bids)
- 472 – $140,000 (7 bids)
- 689 – $171,000 (25 bids)
- 761 – $145,000 (14 bids)
- 958 – $135,000 (8 bids)
4 digit heritage and bicentennial plates:
- 1155 – $66,000 (14 bids)
- 1795 – $28,000 (7 bids) [Bicentennial plate]
- 3377 – $58,000 (11 bids)
- 6009 – $66,000 (20 bids)
- 8778 – $74,000 (19 bids)
5 digit heritage and bicentennial plates:
- 10002 – $26,000 (12 bids)
- 10801 – $29,500 (22 bids)
- 58687 – $18,000 (10 bids)
- 80085 – $19,500 (7 bids)
6 digit heritage plates:
- 140140 – $11,500 (4 bids)
- 188880 – $14,000 (5 bids)
- 277901 – $9,000 (6 bids)
