Number Plate Auction Results — Week Ending 22 July 2026 | The Plate Ledger
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If last week was about signatures, this week belonged entirely to heritage. Six Victorian plates sold through Trading Garage for a combined $561,952 all-in — and five of the six cleared $88,000. This was one of the strongest concentrated runs of Victorian heritage numerics the Ledger has recorded.
As always, every figure below is the all-in price: hammer plus the auction house's buyer's premium. That's what the winning bidder actually paid, and it's the only number that matters when you're tracking plates as assets.
The headline: '9-595' at $137,088
A short-combination Victorian heritage plate, '9-595', hammered at $126,000. With Trading Garage's 8.8% buyer's premium, the all-in lands at $137,088 — the week's top result and a benchmark for four-character heritage.
What makes this run remarkable isn't one plate — it's the depth. Five separate combinations sold above $88,000 all-in on the same day. That's not a single motivated buyer chasing one plate; that's a market bidding with conviction across the board.
The top of the board
| Plate | Format | Hammer | All-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9·595 | VIC Heritage | $126,000 | $137,088 |
| 3·008 | VIC Heritage | $112,000 | $121,856 |
| 11·101 | VIC Heritage | $90,000 | $97,920 |
| 97·000 | VIC Heritage | $85,000 | $92,480 |
| 67·676 | VIC Heritage | $81,000 | $88,128 |
Every plate in that table is a four- or five-character Victorian heritage combination, and the pricing tells you exactly what this market values. '9-595' and '3-008' lead because they open with a single digit — the shorter the leading run, the higher the tier. '11-101' and '67-676' bring pattern into it: repeating and mirrored digit structures that read cleanly and stay memorable. '97-000' rides the triple-zero, a combination style that has consistently outperformed its character count.
The lesson is one this column keeps landing on: in heritage numerics, the combination is everything. Character count sets the floor; pattern and leading digits set the ceiling.
The numeric that rounds it out
| Plate | Format | Hammer | All-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 270·666 | VIC Numeric | $22,500 | $24,480 |
'270-666' at $24,480 all-in sits in a different tier to the heritage lots above it, but it's a strong six-digit numeric result in its own right — the triple-six ending doing exactly what a strong pattern does. Placed against recent numeric sales tracked here, it lands at the upper end of the six-digit range and reinforces that buyers pay for the pattern, not the digit count.
Week snapshot
- Lots sold: 6 (all Trading Garage)
- Total hammer: $516,500
- Total all-in: $561,952
- Passed in: none recorded — three consecutive recaps with a clean sheet
- Top lot: '9-595' — $137,088 all-in
- Story of the week: five Victorian heritage plates clearing $88k on a single day
How we calculate all-in pricing
The Plate Ledger always reports the full purchase cost, not the headline hammer.
Trading Garage: buyer's premium of 8.8%, capped at $16,000 for standard plates, with a $1,000 minimum premium applying to signature plates. Every lot this week paid the standard 8.8% — the smallest premium was $1,980, so no lot came near the signature minimum.
Passed-in lots are never counted as sales and are listed separately when they occur.
Protecting the asset
A week like this is the clearest argument the Ledger can make. When five Victorian heritage plates change hands above $88,000 in a single afternoon, the hardware presenting them stops being an afterthought — it's protecting a five-figure asset bolted to the front of a car.
Browse our Victorian heritage plate mounts — dedicated brackets for 3-digit, 4-digit, 5-digit and 6-digit plates, each precision-cut in Melbourne to the exact dimensions of one format and fitted using your car's existing factory mounting points. New to the formats? Start with our complete guide to Victorian plate sizes.
The Plate Ledger is FLX's weekly record of Australian number plate auction results. All prices include buyer's premium. Results compiled from publicly listed auction outcomes; figures may be rounded by the auction houses.