Italy license plate: Dealer prova 1993

Retired Documented 1993 to 2002. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.

Italy license plate, Dealer prova 1993 (documented 1993 to 2002), sample NDP 4848

Format, years and the law

Format
LLP 9999, for example NDP 4848 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented 1993 to 2002; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
340 × 109 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE GREEN-P TRADE PLATE, 1993-2002. Four shapes under one regime, so the three companions are recorded as variants rather than as three thin series: what distinguishes them is a vertically stacked two-letter suffix (MA, MO) and the plate size, not the serial. The GREEN P is the one colour Italy ever assigned to a functional letter and it did not survive: D.P.R. 474/2001 repainted the P black.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Appendice XII lett. l) 'targa prova per autoveicoli e rimorchi (fig. III.4/n): riporta, nell'ordine, due caratteri alfabetici, la lettera "P", il marchio ufficiale della Repubblica italiana e quattro caratteri... https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=19940101
  2. lett. m) retitled '((targa prova per ciclomotori e motoveicoli))' by D.P.R. 610/1996 https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=19980101

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is it-dealer-prova-1993. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Italy's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/it \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "it-dealer-prova-1993")'