Monaco license plate: Collection 0000

Issued today Documented since 1978. Historic plates for car, issued by Service des Titres de Circulation, Principauté de Monaco. One of 17 Monaco license plates.

Monaco license plate, Collection 0000 (documented since 1978), sample 0000

Format, years and the law

Format
0000

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

Years issued
Documented since 1978; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car.
Colours
Characters #5B9BD5 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE 0000 PLATE. This is the only four-zero group in Monegasque law, and it is a COLLECTORS' plate, not a princely one. It is modelled precisely because the "000 belongs to the Princely family" claim is so widely repeated: the string that claim half-remembers exists, and it means something else. Distinguish it from the "Série Véhicules de collection" for vehicles over thirty years old, which uses ordinary characters and is not a plate series at all.
Format notes
A SINGLE-VALUE SERIES. Art. 6, "Plaques de collection": "un groupe de quatre zéros ; couleur des caractères : bleu." The pattern spells the zeros as literals rather than as 9 tokens, because a 9 token would generate serials this series does not contain.

Legal basis and sources

  1. AM 78-5 art. 6, Plaques de collection https://legimonaco.mc/tnc/arrete-ministeriel/1978/01-09-78-5/

This plate in your app

The series id is mc-collection-0000. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Monaco's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mc \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mc-collection-0000")'