Egypt license plate: Legacy
Retired Documented 2000 to 2008. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by الإدارة العامة للمرور. One of 11 Egypt license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9999, for example9193(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
- Documented 2000 to 2008; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- About this plate
- The legacy plate spelled the vehicle's activity out in words, «أجرة» «ملاكي» «نقل» «هيئة دبلوماسية» «شرطة» «أتوبيس خاص» «أتوبيس عام» «رØلات» «جرار زراعي», beside the governorate name. Those words are part of the plate's identity but are not part of the SERIAL, so they appear in no pattern. They were «ألغيت تماما», abolished entirely, in the 2008 design, which replaced them with the single word «مصر» in the band. That abolition is the clearest single marker of the era boundary.
- About its years
- BOTH ENDS ARE WEAK AND BOTH SAY SO. 2008 is the introduction of the replacement design, not a sourced cessation of issue: no instrument states when the legacy series stopped being issued, and legacy plates remained valid and in circulation afterwards.
- How the region is encoded
- The legacy plate encoded the governorate EXPLICITLY and in Latin letters, not through the serial, a photographed Aswan cart plate reads «C.ASN» on its left side, where ASN is Aswan. No table ships: the abbreviation list was never located, and this series is closed.
Legal basis and sources
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20251010130322/https://traffic.moi.gov.eg/Arabic/OurServices/InfoServices/InteriorMiniste...
- upload.wikimedia.org https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/License_plates_of_Egypt_1129a.jpg
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20181001220455/http://www.masrawy.com/Autos/autos_news/details/2014/12/3/401710/
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is eg-legacy-2000. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Egypt's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/eg \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "eg-legacy-2000")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/eg/eg-legacy-2000.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/eg/eg-legacy-2000/template.svg
