# Egypt license plate: Legacy

> The Egypt legacy license plate: format 9999, for example 9193, documented 2000 to 2008, car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.

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Part of [Egypt license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/egypt) (11 registration series).

![Egypt license plate, Legacy (documented 2000 to 2008)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/eg/eg-legacy-2000/egypt-license-plate-legacy.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `9999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2000–2008 (documented from 2000; the format is likely older) |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer |
| 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 | `eg-legacy-2000` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/egypt/legacy-2000) |

Sources:

- [web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20251010130322/https://traffic.moi.gov.eg/Arabic/OurServices/InfoServices/InteriorMinisterDecision/Pages/license-plates-taxes-traffic-fees.aspx)
- [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/)

## About this plate

The legacy plate spelled the vehicle's activity out in words, «أجرة» «ملاكي» «نقل» «هيئة دبلوماسية» «شرطة» «أتوبيس خاص» «أتوبيس عام» «رحلات» «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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Replaced by | [Standard](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/egypt/standard-2008) | 2008 to today |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/egypt/standard-2008) (2008 to today)
- [Tourism](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/egypt/tourism-2008) (2008 to today)
- [Transport](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/egypt/transport-2008) (2008 to today)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/eg/eg-legacy-2000.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/egypt?series=eg-legacy-2000
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/eg` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "eg-legacy-2000"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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