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Malta license plate: Vintage silver

Issued today 2018 to today. Historic plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Transport Malta / Authority for Transport in Malta. One of 13 Malta license plates.

Malta license plate, Vintage silver (2018 to today), sample OSW 327
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example OSW 327 (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
2018 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #C0C0C0 Background #000000
About this plate
THE CURRENT MALTESE VINTAGE PLATE, silver on black, from L.N. 139 of 2018 (gazetted 27-04-2018), NOT 2017 as commonly stated. Eligibility is a ROLLING 30-year rule from date of manufacture under Cap. 368 art. 25, with a classification committee, which is worth contrasting with Cyprus, whose black historic plate is keyed to a FIXED calendar date (registration on or before 31-12-1974) and whose eligible population therefore shrinks every year while Malta's grows.

Legal basis and sources

  1. L.N. 139 of 2018 (Government Gazette 19,984, 27-04-2018) s.7(b): the silver-on-black rule; s.6 updated the swap-fee wording from black->green to green->silver https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/2018/139/eng
  2. S.L. 368.02 Second Schedule as consolidated (carries the silver-on-black text) and reg. 6D(7), added by L.N. 178 of 2015 and substituted by L.N. 160 of 2025: 'The registration mark allotted by the Authority to... https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/368.2/eng
  3. Cap. 368 art. 25 (Act XIII of 2015, amended by Act XVIII of 2021 and Act IX of 2025): the 30-year threshold and the 50-year tax exemption https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/368/eng

Before and after

Malta license plate, Vintage green (2015 to 2018) It replaced Vintage green 2015 to 2018

This plate in your app

The series id is mt-vintage-silver-2018. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Malta's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mt \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mt-vintage-silver-2018")'
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