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Monaco license plate: Standard letter suffix

Issued today Documented since 2013. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Service des Titres de Circulation, Principauté de Monaco. One of 17 Monaco license plates.

Monaco license plate, Standard letter suffix (documented since 2013), sample 699N
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Format, years and the law

Format
999L, for example 699N (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 2013; 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
Characters #5B9BD5 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THREE DIGITS THEN A LETTER, the newest car grammar, from 2013, created to expand capacity. A plate of this shape cannot predate 2013, which makes it the only Monegasque serial shape that carries era information. That is a genuinely useful parse-API signal and it rests on a dated instrument.
About its years
2013, AND THE INSTRUMENT SAYS WHY. This grammar is NOT in the 1978 text, that was checked against the original gazette printing. It was introduced by Arrêté Ministériel n° 2013-44 du 23 janvier 2013, JdM du 1er février 2013, whose title is itself dispositive on motive: "modifiant l'arrêté ministériel n° 78-5 […] en vue de l'augmentation du nombre de numéros d'immatriculation". A capacity expansion, dated by its own instrument.
How numbers are issued
art. 6: the letter is taken 'par ordre alphabétique' from the enumerated list

Legal basis and sources

  1. AM 2013-44 du 23 janvier 2013, amending AM 78-5 art. 6 https://legimonaco.mc/tnc/arrete-ministeriel/2013/01-23-2013-44/
  2. AM 78-5 art. 6, current consolidated text: 'un groupe de trois chiffres au plus suivi d'une lettre prise, par ordre alphabétique, dans la liste ci-après' https://legimonaco.mc/tnc/arrete-ministeriel/1978/01-09-78-5/

This plate in your app

The series id is mc-standard-letter-suffix. 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-suffix")'
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