Thailand license plate: Auction graphic
Issued today 2003 to today. Personalized plates for car, truck, and van, issued by กรมการขนส่งทางบก (Department of Land Transport, DLT), Ministry of Transport. One of 21 Thailand license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9999, for example3495(9 any digit)Here the digits are the meaning: ten statutory families of "desirable" numbers, repeats, round thousands, ascending runs, mirrored pairs, must go to public auction by law. All-nines fetch fortunes partly because เก้า, "nine", echoes ก้าว, "to move forward".
The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 2003 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, truck, and van.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000 - Size
- 340 × 150 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- 10/1 of the Motor Vehicle Act B.E. 2522, inserted by the Motor Vehicle Act (No. 12) B.E. 2546, obliges the Director-General to put such numbers to general auction, and the B.E. 2546 ministerial regulation given 7 August 2003 defines them. The ten classes are closed and primary (single digits; two, three and four repeated digits; round thousands; three- and four-digit ascending runs; and the mirrored, bracketed and alternating pair families), but the Gazette PDF's text layer is legacy-encoded, so they are described here and not quoted.
- About the format
- An auctioned plate carries an ORDINARY registration: the same two category letters, the same up-to-four-digit number and the same province line. What is bought is WHICH number, and what changes is the plate's ground, which may carry a picture. The pattern is the number block.
Legal basis and sources
- กฎกระทรวง กำหนดหมายเลขทะเบียนซึ่งเป็นที่ต้องการหรือเป็นที่นิยม เพื่อนำออกเปิดประมูลเป็นการทั่วไป พ.ศ. ๒๕๔๖, ข้อ ๑ the ten closed classes of auctionable number and the three vehicle classes they apply to; ข้อ ๒... https://web.archive.org/web/20141019064112/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/00126585.PDF
- ข้อ ๓ closing paragraph (the Director-General may vary every colour on an auctioned plate) and ข้อ ๔ (pictorial grounds) https://web.archive.org/web/20171113165614/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2554/A/045/6.PDF
This plate in your app
The series id is th-auction-graphic-2003. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Thailand's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/th \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "th-auction-graphic-2003")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-auction-graphic-2003.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-auction-graphic-2003/template.svg
