Dubai is known for supercars, but it is also known for luxurious and special nameplates. And on 8th April, Saturday night, an auction took place in Dubai where the bidder paid AED55 million for the number 7 number plate. The auction sold other name plates and exclusive mobile numbers and raised nearly a whopping AED100 million, $27 million for UAE’s ‘1 Billion Meals Campaign. Read on for all the deets.
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Sold number plates include- H31, W78, N41, AA19, AA22, X36, Z37, AA80 and more. The auction was conducted at the Four Seasons Hotel in Jumeirah and was organised by Emirates Auction, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, Etisalat and Du. P7 topped the list and was sold for AED55 million, breaking the 2008 record set by Emirati businessman Saeed Khouri, who paid $14.2 million for Abu Dhabi’s number 1 plate at a charity auction in 2008. With that, P7 has entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most expensive number plate. Apart from P7, Dubai number plate AA 19 was sold for AED4.9 million, and O71 for AED2.1 million.
Besides this, ten mobile numbers from Du and 11 phone numbers from Etisalat were also for auction. Etisalat numbers were sold for over AED3.3 million, while 971548888888 number topped the list and was sold for AED2.3 million. Du sold 10 special mobile numbers for AED10.
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All proceeds from the auction will go to HH Sheikh Mohammed’s One Billion Meals Campaign, which aims to fight global hunger. The anonymous buyer’s generous contribution will go a long way in helping provide much-needed meals for people in need across the world.
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