Lithuania license plate: Historic

Issued today 2014 to today. Historic plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by AB Regitra (State Enterprise Regitra. One of 16 Lithuania license plates.

Lithuania license plate, Historic (2014 to today), sample H39556

Format, years and the law

Format
H99999, for example H39556 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
2014 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Lithuania license plate, Historic 300×150 mm (2014 to today)

    Historic 300×150 mm

    historic · 300 × 150 mm

About this plate
Unlike Estonia's and Finland's historic plates, the Lithuanian one is NOT a black retro plate: it is an ordinary white EU-band plate distinguished only by the H prefix, and its predecessor was brown rather than black.

Legal basis and sources

  1. PRIMARY (authority): H + five numbers for cars; formats 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; white reflective with black characters and the blue strip; earlier brown plates need not be changed; first available 1 July 2014; standard... https://www.regitra.lt/en/services/state-number-plates/types-of-vehicle-registration-number-license-plates/for-histor...

This plate in your app

The series id is lt-historic. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Lithuania's series:

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