DEV 1L Number Plate Value

Key Factors Behind This Valuation

• Sold at DVLA auction (DVLA auction Dec 2021) for £240,010
• Reads DEVIL (read score 92)
• Standout number combination

How DEV 1L Reads

DEVIL read score 92/100

The whole plate spells it out.

Name and word reads carry the deepest demand: a plate that spells something real appeals to every matching buyer at once, and that pool never empties.

Auction Evidence

This exact registration has been through a DVLA auction (DVLA auction Dec 2021), hammering at £240,010. Hammer prices are real money changing hands: the strongest single anchor any valuation can have.

We hold 22 auction hammer prices for plates sharing these letters in this same plate format, with a median of £2,010, anchoring the band to what buyers actually pay rather than asking prices.

The Full Story

DEV 1L is a suffix style (1963-1983) registration.

Its standout feature is the read: it says DEVIL. The whole plate spells it out. Plates that spell something real always sit above the crowd, because they appeal to everyone who shares the name or the meaning rather than one buyer with matching initials.

On the numbers: the number 1: the single most sought-after digit there is.

Here is the headline: this exact registration has been through a DVLA auction (DVLA auction Dec 2021) and sold for £240,010. A plate's own hammer price is the strongest evidence that can exist, so our band simply brackets that real sale.

We found too few close matches in our movement data to price this from direct comparables, so the estimate leans on typical values for the format, adjusted for the read and the numbers. Treat it as a starting point rather than a benchmark.

Search interest on our own site for this read has been quiet over the last three months (0 searches), which feeds the demand side of the picture.