Newly-crowned Yang di-Pertuan Agong (YDPA) Sultan Ibrahim recently made history with his latest license plate purchase at a whopping amount of RM1.5 million.
The news was announced by His Majesty in a Facebook post yesterday (Feb 20), where he disclosed that he snagged the license plate by placing the highest bid ever in Malaysian history.
YDPA buys ‘GOLD 1’ license plate for RM1.5mil
In the post, it included a photo of Transport Minister Anthony Loke presenting the ‘GOLD 1’ license plate to the King during an audience at Istana Negara.
The RM1.5 million bid for the ‘GOLD 1’ license plate has also officially beaten His Majesty’s previous record of RM1.2 million, which was the amount he spent to snag the ‘FF1’ license plate last June.
The King is widely known for being an avid collector of unique license plates as well as forking out huge amounts of money to secure them.
On May 29, 2012, His Majesty bought the ‘WWW1’ number plate, where he set the record for the highest bid amount of RM520,000, reported The Star.
A year later, he purchased the ‘F1’ number plate for RM836,660 and secured the ‘VR46’ plate for RM55,002.20 in 2017.
Aside from his wide collection of number plates, our King also has several interesting facts that most Malaysians aren’t aware of:
