Today's banner is the last of the snowy scene banners I have, but it's also a rare political reward license plate, and thanks to CoSC, I learned about those

The hierarchy in the way license plates once were allocated reflected late eighteenth century political thought in most states. New York allocated “1” to the governor and “2” to the lieutenant governor. 

State senators would also get low numbers, the state’s senior U.S. Senator, the junior U.S. Senator, and the Congressman is issued a plate also in the single digits. 

anything coveted and derived from official governmental action was leveraged into a reward for political support. So in the early part of the 20th century, that low-number license plates became a way for politicians to say “thank you” by conveying favored status to the holders of such single digit plates  Law enforcement was aware a motorist displaying a low-numbered plate was due preferential treatment.

Delaware and Massachusetts – by all accounts the two most plate-obsessed states in the union. License plates bearing low numbers in Delaware are today so prized that they are included in wills, as a family heirloom. 

I just remembered that I posted an inherited Ohio single digit plate, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/03/passed-down-in-family-since-1935.html

Massachusetts drivers have had a strange obsession with low-number license plates from the very beginning, nearly 120 years ago, as a point of pride and to highlight their Bay State family lineage.

 Governor Michael Dukakis continued the trend of handing out low-number combinations to political supporters – until a week before he decided to run for President.

a Wisconsin Democrat, Gov Nelson was elected in 1958 thanks largely to donations from a wealthy Republican. On Inauguration Day the new Governor met with his rich benefactor, whom he asked if there was “anything” he wanted as payback. 

“Well, there is one thing, Governor,” the man is quoted as saying. “Do you think I could get one of those low-numbered license plates?”

https://www.automobiliaresource.com/license-plate-collecting/archives/08-2021