Monaco license plate: Standard letter prefix
Issued today Documented since 1978. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Service des Titres de Circulation, Principauté de Monaco. One of 17 Monaco license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L999, for exampleC948(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
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#5B9BD5Background#FFFFFF - About this plate
- LETTER THEN THREE DIGITS, the second car grammar, running B001 to Y999 through the enumerated alphabet.
- About its years
- Also original to AM 78-5 and confirmed in the 1978 gazette printing: "ou une lettre et un groupe de trois chiffres au plus". So Monaco had a lettered car grammar from the start, the 2013 amendment added a THIRD grammar, it did not introduce letters.
Legal basis and sources
- AM 78-5 art. 6, série normale: 'une lettre et un groupe de trois chiffres au plus, soit n° B001 à n° B999 ; n° C001 à n° C999' and the letter list https://legimonaco.mc/tnc/arrete-ministeriel/1978/01-09-78-5/
This plate in your app
The series id is mc-standard-letter-prefix. 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-standard-letter-prefix")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/mc/mc-standard-letter-prefix.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/mc/mc-standard-letter-prefix/template.svg
