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Argentina license plate: Mercosur

Issued today 2016 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and semitrailer, issued by Dirección Nacional de los Registros Nacionales de la Propiedad del Automotor y de Créditos Prendarios (DNRPA), Ministerio de Justicia. One of 10 Argentina license plates.

Argentina license plate, Mercosur (2016 to today), sample YK 367 PS
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999 LL, for example YK 367 PS (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and semitrailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
400 × 130 mm · every country's size
Typeface
FE-Engschrift · license plate fonts
About this plate
OLD STOCK ISSUED ON after the switch: Circulares D.N. Nros.
Region code notes
Argentine dominios encode NO geography and never have. The Registro Seccional that issues a plate draws from a nationally-adjudicated stock (Digesto Título I Cap. IX Sec. 1ª art. 2: "El Sistema Informático adjudicará a los Registros Seccionales (en función de las placas metálicas obrantes en su stock) los números de dominio"), so a serial says WHEN, not WHERE.
How numbers are issued
From AA 000 AA, right to left, letters A→Z and digits 0→9, each position rolling its left neighbour on exhaustion (Disposición 40/2016 art. 1). Because the progression is a pure odometer over a fully-populated alphabet, an Argentine Mercosur dominio is a usable AGE PROXY: the left-most letters advance monotonically with issue date, nationally, with no regional reset.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Disposición D.N. N° 40/2016 art. 1, 'A partir del dominio AA 000 AA en el caso de los automotores … la codificación variará de derecha a izquierda', the 26-letter alphabet, the roll-over rule https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/255000-259999/258787/norma.htm
  2. Disposición D.N. N° 411/2015 arts. 1-6 and Anexo II (ESPECIFICACIONES TECNICAS): seven characters, 400 × 130 mm, FE Engschrift 65 mm, Pantone 286 C band, directional images https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/250000-254999/252063/norma.htm
  3. Disposición D.N. N° 659/2015, the prórroga of the entry into force to 1 April 2016 https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/255000-259999/257320/norma.htm
  4. Digesto Título I Cap. IX Sec. 1ª arts. 1-2 and Anexo A, the consolidated text in force https://www.dnrpa.gov.ar/nuevodigesto/digesto/Titulo1.pdf
  5. Ley N° 27.187 Anexo, GMC Res. 33/14 and the MERCOSUR technical specification https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/250000-254999/253150/ley27187.pdf

Before and after

Argentina license plate, 1995 car (1995 to 2016) It replaced 1995 car 1995 to 2016

This plate in your app

The series id is ar-mercosur-2016. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Argentina's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ar \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ar-mercosur-2016")'
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