Valuing suffix (dated) number plate

Goudy

A lot of these reg number companies don't actually buy the numbers from you but they will often act as a broker and sell them for you for a fee, either through a normal sale or an in house auction.

Sell Number Plates and Private Registrations Online (regtransfers.co.uk)

So they can cherry pick the good numbers, probably cheaply if the seller is in a hurry and list other numbers for sale that they don't actually own.
Saves them tying up lots of funds in numbers that are harder and/or slower to shift.

The later group of numbers often appear on multiple sites as often the company only make their money when it's sold.

So even if you had a valuable number, a company would probably only offer you a low price anyway.

What it's worth and how to sell it is hard to answer.
It can't go on a car older than 1977 which isn't really detrimental to it's value and there are people out there that just want a cheap number that masks the real age of their vehicle.

Joking aside, it's obviously not PEN or DEN but the three letters might be someone's initials.

If it was me, I'd probably just stick it on my own car or retention and try listing it on ebay for a while, but make it affordable, taking into account the transfer fee.

It if was my fathers and he liked it, I might be tempted to just keep it on my car as a reminder of him.

Arunmor

Stick the plate on EBay with a reserve that covers your costs and let the market decide alternatively transfer it to your car in memoriam of your father.

Mgman1965

Iceweasel said:

What do you intend doing with the 47 year old car?
It's possibly worth more with the number it currently has.
If you put the xxx 1S number on retention for £80 DVLA will allocate it another 1997 number.
You can then put that on retention too, and get another 1997 number.
You can then put that on retention too.
Repeat aid infinitum with as many as you wish.
Some people make a living out of this kind of thing.
Others treat it as a hobby.
Some folks go large and even have a shed-full of old mopeds and motorbikes which are not too costly to keep in MOT condition.
The difficulty is finding people who have the initials matching the three letters you will have on these various 1977 plates.
This is why they are not worth much compared to dateless plates and/or Northern Ireland plates.

Wrong, you can't do this.

Once a car has had a new VRM issued to it to replace one taken off the new VRM is non transferable to stop this.

Iceweasel

Mgman1965 said:

Iceweasel said:

What do you intend doing with the 47 year old car?
It's possibly worth more with the number it currently has.
If you put the xxx 1S number on retention for £80 DVLA will allocate it another 1997 number.
You can then put that on retention too, and get another 1997 number.
You can then put that on retention too.
Repeat aid infinitum with as many as you wish.
Some people make a living out of this kind of thing.
Others treat it as a hobby.
Some folks go large and even have a shed-full of old mopeds and motorbikes which are not too costly to keep in MOT condition.
The difficulty is finding people who have the initials matching the three letters you will have on these various 1977 plates.
This is why they are not worth much compared to dateless plates and/or Northern Ireland plates.

Wrong, you can't do this.

Once a car has had a new VRM issued to it to replace one taken off the new VRM is non transferable to stop this.

Not always.
And it doesn't appear to affect NI plates.