Your old car tax disc could be worth a fortune – Some discs selling for hundreds of pounds

Car tax discs became obsolete in 2014 when they were scrapped in favour of a new tax system. The discs used to adorn the windscreens of cars and offered a visual reminder for motorists when they need to get their vehicle excise duty renewed. Since the tax systems were moved online motorists there has been no need for the tax disc anymore. Now rare and unique tax discs are being bought and sold by collectors online on websites such as eBay. 

Enthusiasts who trade car tax discs are known as ‘velologists’ and have paid hundreds for rare discs in the past. The highest sum for car tax disc sold at auction was over £1,000 and was a disc that expired in December 1921. 

Before that, the tax disc that fetched the most was one from the same year that fetched £810, according to MoneyMagpie. Older discs in good condition are usually those to fetch the highest amounts at auction due to the rarity and their age. 

However, some of the newest car tax discs could be among the rarest and most valuable. Most discs came with perforated paper around it but the DVLA ran out of perforated paper near the end of the production of them. 

A selection of drivers, therefore, received a tax disc without perforated paper and as a result, have become rare and are likely to rise in value. 

Some other rare examples of discs are those with weird quirks, anomalies or mistakes on them. In 2003 there was a limited run of discs with barcodes on them and can fetch well over £100. 

Another example comes from 1954 when the Government released a new design but had accidentally printed the wrong date on them. They were printed with the date 1953 instead which the DVLA tried to messily rectify with a black rectangle printed over the top.

However, with these type of niche hobbies and collector’s items, there is no hard and fast rule to what will sell for 99p or for £500. Here are a few examples of rare tax discs that have been sold online over the past year. 

One tax disc recently sold for £1,225 which attracted 16 bids on the auction site after starting at £100. The tax disc was from a 1921 Alldays Vehicles which was purchased in Birmingham on the 09/10/1921. Tax discs from this era are among the most sought after and valuable.

Another 1921 tax disc, which was originally found on a motorbike also sold for a hefty amount. The disc, which expired on 31st December, was not in the best condition but sold for £452.

Yet another 1921 number plate, which was on just a decent condition was also flogged for hundreds of pounds. This disc also expired on 31st December 1921 and was sold for £202.05.

It’s not just older plates that fetch a lot of cash as one disc from November 2003 which sold for £171. The Norwich dealer decreed it as being in very good condition.

The reason this disc is particularly valuable is due to the fact it has a barcode on it, which was a short-lived introduction tax discs.

A job lot from containing 19 original discs from 1943 – 1948 from the same vehicle fetched £362 recently. Another 162 discs collection was flogged for £323 and contained a range of discs dating from the 1940s to the 2000s.

One sale was of a job lot of tax discs with a price tag of £3,795. It included 2,396 old tax discs from 1951 to Aug 2015 and the seller believe that a price of £2 per disc is a fair price as it “will far exceed this value in the years to come – great investment potential..”

Job lots can tend to fetch a lot of cash and often come with a higher starting price. One example of this is a bundle of eight discs which are described as ‘all genuine vehicle highly collectible all in very good condition…all with surrounds.”

The discs in the collection are a blue December 1961, green December 1963, red March 1964, blue February 1969, red February 1972, brown September 1974, red February 1976 and red September 1976. It comes with a £440 asking price.

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