# Italy license plate: Provincial

> The Italy provincial license plate: format LL 999999, for example DA 165462, documented 1959 to 1996, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [Italy license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy) (20 registration series).

![Italy license plate, Provincial (documented 1959 to 1996)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-provincial-1959/italy-license-plate-provincial.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL 999999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | ~1959–1996 (documented from 1959; the format is likely older) |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Plate size | 275 × 200 mm |
| Other sizes | 267 × 62 mm: targa anteriore, single row (art. 321): 'porta in rilievo, in carattere bianco su fondo nero, su unica riga le indicazioni contenute nella targa di riconoscimento' |
| Colours | background #000000; characters #FFFFFF |
| Rear plate differs from the front | yes |
| 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 | `it-provincial-1959` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/provincial-1959) |

Sources:

- [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)
- [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 immatricolazione ... originale'](https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.del.presidente.della.repubblica:1992-12-16;495~art260)

## 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.

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard 1999](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/standard-1999) (documented since 1999)
- [Standard 1993](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/standard-1993) (documented 1993 to 1999)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-provincial-1959.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/italy?series=it-provincial-1959
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/it` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "it-provincial-1959"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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