# Cyprus license plate: Standard 1956

> The Cyprus standard 1956 license plate: format LL 999, for example UE 829, 1956 to 1990, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [Cyprus license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/cyprus) (5 registration series).

![Cyprus license plate, Standard 1956 (1956 to 1990)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cy/cy-standard-1956/cyprus-license-plate-standard-1956.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL 999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 1956–1990 |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000 |
| Rear plate differs from the front | yes |
| 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 | `cy-standard-1956` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/cyprus/standard-1956) |

The two-letter era, running from before the Republic itself existed through to around 1990, on the same unprescribed white-front / yellow-rear basis as its three-letter successor.

The two letters spell nothing — they simply count upward, plate by plate. The same marks rolled on unchanged through independence in 1960: a registration series that outlived the colonial order that created it.

Sources:

- [Κ.Δ.Π. 159/1973 (Ε.Ε. Παρ. III(1) Αρ. 1023, 13-7-1973): Δεύτερον Παράρτημα, gazette pages 646-648 — plate content unprescribed; Καν. 6(3) the Τ/Ζ prefixes](https://www.cylaw.org/KDP/data/1973_1_159.pdf)
- [Κ.Δ.Π. 66/1984 — same position restated; Δεύτερον Παράρτημα παρ. 3(γ) the front/rear colours](https://www.cylaw.org/KDP/data/1984_1_66.pdf)
- [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Cyprus)

## About this plate

THE TWO-LETTER ERA. 1956 is a secondary start date and predates the Republic's independence (1960) and the enabling Law (1972), the marks were carried forward across both, which is itself the reason a registration series can outlive the constitutional order that created it and why this file dates the SERIES rather than the STATE.

## About the format

Secondary sources split it at 1973 into an unspaced AB123 form and a spaced AB 123 form; that is a TYPOGRAPHIC distinction with no instrument behind it (Κ.Δ.Π. 159/1973's Second Schedule is verbatim identical to Κ.Δ.Π. 66/1984's on plate content, i.e. it prescribes nothing), so the two are modelled as one series with an optional gap rather than as two series divided by an unsourced boundary. No letter set, no digit count and no dimensions were prescribed in this era.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Replaced by | [Standard 1990](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/cyprus/standard-1990) | 1990 to 2013 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard 2013](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/cyprus/standard-2013) (2013 to today)
- [Standard 1990](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/cyprus/standard-1990) (1990 to 2013)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cy/cy-standard-1956.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/cyprus?series=cy-standard-1956
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cy` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "cy-standard-1956"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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