Rhode Islanders aren't the only ones obsessed with low digit license plate numbers

Delaware license plate No. 6 sells for $675,000

I guess Rhode Islanders aren't the only ones obsessed with low digit license plate numbers. A Delaware No. 6 license plate sold at auction today for $675,000

No. 6 is the lowest-digit active Delaware license plate ever auctioned at a public sale, said auctioneer Butch Emmert of Emmert Auction Associates. With numbers 1, 2, and 3 reserved for the governor, lieutenant governor and secretary of state, single digit tags are much more elusive.

“You’ve got a supply of virtually none, so it’s the status that naturally comes with having something that’s hard to get,” said Robert Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University.

“The very fact that they’re buyable and sellable is what gives them their value. Put more simply, it’s a status symbol."

Read the complete article at DelawareOnline.com.