Any Rhode Island license plate number will do!

This license plate hunt has been very educational for our family....myself included.  Here's a little fun fact I learned about Rhode Island plates.

Here we will Green Bay Packers season tickets to family members.  In Rhode Island they will something else. 

Low-Numbered License Plates are a Status Symbol.

Outside of Rhode Island, mentioning the social cachet that comes with having a low-numbered license plate is met with blank stares. But here, low-numbered license plates are very, very valuable. These aren't vanity plates, just the number that's not-so-randomly assigned to every vehicle.

Low plates are so valuable, people will them to favored family members. It's considered somewhat of a state-wide shame when one of those plates is auctioned for cash and the take divided among survivors, who no doubt grieve that Uncle Jim didn't leave two "low numbahs." Those who have the good social fortune to drive a car bearing a plate with both their initials and a low number are either very wealthy and/or involved in organized crime.

Low plates are such a commodity that they can be a source of scandal -- enough so that current Gov. Donald L. Carcieri included fighting plate-number corruption in his platform. On October 28, 2003, Governor Carcieri officiated over an impartial lottery at the State House, drawing the first three numbers. Thousands of people submitted postcards, selected from a drum by the governor.

More info on it at Wiki....

Since 1904, when the first black and white porcelain license plates were issued by the state, politicians have distributed low-numbered plates as a way to reward supporters or associates; such plates have become a status symbol. State officials have seemingly legitimized this by making Rhode Island one of the few states which allows the owner to leave license plates to other family members in their will. For "preferred plates", (Passenger plates with 1 letter and 1-3 digits or 2 letters with 1-2 digits, Passenger plates with 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 digits, Commercial/Motorcycle plates with 1-4 digits, Combination plates with 1-4 digits, Suburban/War Veteran's plates with 1-3 digits, and National Guard plates with 1-2 digits), there has also been an official license plate lottery through the Governor's Office. The value depends on the category of the license plate, the general "Ocean State" is the most valuable followed by "Combination" or "Suburban" license plates; license plates under the category "Taxi", "Commercial", "State", "Public" or "Bus" are less important because the total number of these plates are fewer. The main branch of the Division of Motor Vehicles is cooperative in allowing choosing the two letters beginning the license plates if available in the plate room, as long as not a preferred plate.