Monaco license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today Documented since 1978. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle and moped, issued by Service des Titres de Circulation, Principauté de Monaco. One of 17 Monaco license plates.

Monaco license plate, Motorcycle (documented since 1978), sample QH37

Format, years and the law

Format
LL99, for example QH37 (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
Documented since 1978; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle and moped.
Colours
Characters #5B9BD5 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
MOTORCYCLES AND MOPEDS, two letters and two digits, the only ordinary Monegasque shape that leads with two letters. The princely exclusions make this the one series in the file whose grammar is defined partly by subtraction.

Legal basis and sources

  1. AM 78-5 art. 6 (motorcycle grammar and letter list), art. 2 (60 x 35 mm rectangle), art. 4 (13 mm estampille) https://legimonaco.mc/tnc/arrete-ministeriel/1978/01-09-78-5/

This plate in your app

The series id is mc-motorcycle. 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-motorcycle")'