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Italy license plate: Provincial

Retired Documented 1959 to 1996. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.

Italy license plate, Provincial (documented 1959 to 1996), sample DA 165462
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999999, for example DA 165462 (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
Documented 1959 to 1996; 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, and bus.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
275 × 200 mm · every country's size
  • Italy license plate, Provincial 267×62 mm (documented 1959 to 1996)

    Provincial 267×62 mm

    standard · 267 × 62 mm

About this plate
5 of the 1992 regolamento caps the issuance of old-type plates at 31 December 1996. The same comma is the reason a provincial plate is still a live parse target thirty years later: "Gli autoveicoli ... già immatricolati, possono continuare a circolare con la targa di immatricolazione (e con quella anteriore, ove ricorra) originale", never re-plated, still legal.
How the region is encoded
THE PROVINCE IS IN THE MARK ITSELF, this is the only Italian series where a parse can return a province from the serial. The sigla is the province of registration (art. 320), not of residence, which inverts the modern sticker's semantics.

Legal basis and sources

  1. D.P.R. 30 giugno 1959, n. 420, art. 320 (rear plate 275x200, white on black, province sigla + marchio + number or letter/digit combination) and art. 321 (front plate 267x62, single row) https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19590630&codiceRedaz=059U0420&dataVigenza=19920101
  2. art. 260 c. 5, the provincial plates' issuance end: old-type stock ran until exhausted 'e comunque non oltre il 31 dicembre 1996', and already-registered vehicles 'possono continuare a circolare con la targa di... https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.del.presidente.della.repubblica:1992-12-16;495~art260

This plate in your app

The series id is it-provincial-1959. 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-provincial-1959")'
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