# Thailand license plate: Auction graphic

> The Thailand auction graphic license plate: format 9999, for example 3495, 2003 to today, car, truck, and van. What each character means, its sizes and sources.

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Part of [Thailand license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand) (21 registration series).

![Thailand license plate, Auction graphic (2003 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-auction-graphic-2003/thailand-license-plate-auction-graphic.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `9999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | 2003 → today |
| Class | personalized |
| Issued for | car, truck, van |
| Plate size | 340 × 150 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000 |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `th-auction-graphic-2003` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/auction-graphic-2003) |

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".

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 auctions follow the DLT's published order of category letters; ข้อ ๓ unsold numbers are issued normally; ข้อ ๔ the first auction starts at the letter pair after the one then in issue](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)

## 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.

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-auction-graphic-2003.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/thailand?series=th-auction-graphic-2003
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/th` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "th-auction-graphic-2003"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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