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Denmark license plate: Historic pre-1958

Retired 2008 to 2011. Historic plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Skatteforvaltningen (Motorstyrelsen). One of 21 Denmark license plates.

Denmark license plate, Historic pre-1958 (2008 to 2011), sample SN 784
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999, for example SN 784 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
2008 to 2011. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
504 × 120 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE 1958-CUT HISTORIC PLATE, and the reason Denmark needs two historic series instead of one. Between 2008 (at the latest) and 31 March 2011 the permit was open only to vehicles first registered before 1 APRIL 1958 and the plate had to be a pre-1958 type. That date is not decorative: read with the 1 April 1976 line in the current instrument, the two together are the only primary evidence in this file that Denmark's numbering changed twice in the twentieth century, on 1 April 1958 and on 1 April 1976. Neither reform's own instrument was reached.
About its years
END IS EXACT, START IS AN UPPER BOUND. The end: BEK 811/2010 § 103, stk. 3, "§ 79 har virkning fra den 1. april 2011. Indtil da finder § 76 i bekendtgørelse nr. 633 af 26. juni 2009 anvendelse." § 76 of BEK 633/2009 is the 1958-cut historic plate, so this regime ran to 31 March 2011 and the 1976-cut one began on 1 April 2011. The start: BEK 1567/2007, in force 1 January 2008, is the oldest text reachable and already carries the 1958-cut rule (§ 76), so 2008 bounds the start from above rather than fixing it.
About the format
A UNION, deliberately. BEK 1567/2007 § 76, stk.

Legal basis and sources

  1. BEK 1567/2007 § 76: 'SKAT kan tillade brug af en historisk korrekt nummerplade på et køretøj, der er registreret første gang før den 1. april 1958. https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2007/1567/dan/xml
  2. retsinformation.dk https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2010/811/dan/xml
  3. BEK 633/2009 § 76 (the 1958 cut as it stood) and § 101, stk. https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2009/633/dan/xml
  4. da.wikipedia.org https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummerplade

Before and after

Denmark license plate, Historic pre-1976 (2011 to today) Replaced by Historic pre-1976 2011 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is dk-historic-pre1958. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Denmark's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/dk \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "dk-historic-pre1958")'
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