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Denmark license plate: Historic pre-1976

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

Denmark license plate, Historic pre-1976 (2011 to today), sample LX 432
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999, for example LX 432 (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
2011 to today. Still 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 HISTORIC PLATE AS IT STANDS. Eligibility: first registered before 1 April 1976. The plate must match the vehicle's kind and the time of its first registration "eller senere" (§ 75, stk. 2), so a 1960s car may lawfully wear a 1970s plate but not the reverse, and a specific number may be requested in the application. Unlike an ønskenummerplade it FOLLOWS THE VEHICLE (§ 75, stk. 4). Note the separate veteran regime it is often confused with: § 4 lets a vehicle first registered more than thirty years ago be registered "til veterankørsel", which restricts USE (occasional only, no commercial passenger transport, no dangerous goods, no emergency driving, no hire without driver) and has nothing to do with plates.
About its years
BEK 811/2010 came into force on 1 July 2010 (§ 103, stk. 1), but § 103, stk. 3 held its historic-plate section back: "§ 79 har virkning fra den 1. april 2011." Shipping 2010 here, from the bekendtgørelse's own date, would have been the Spanish defect in miniature.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 75 in full: eligibility (first registered before 1 April 1976), the period-correct type-and-number rule with § 56, the six-month deadline, and that the plate FOLLOWS THE VEHICLE and must be surrendered on... https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/663/dan/xml
  2. retsinformation.dk https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2010/811/dan/xml
  3. retsinformation.dk https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2018/1643/dan/xml

Before and after

Denmark license plate, Historic pre-1958 (2008 to 2011) It replaced Historic pre-1958 2008 to 2011

This plate in your app

The series id is dk-historic-pre1976. 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-pre1976")'
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