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Netherlands license plate: Historic dark blue sidecode 2

Issued today 1978 to today. Historic plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, Historic dark blue sidecode 2 (1978 to today), sample 91-78-RH
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Format, years and the law

Format
99-99-LL, for example 91-78-RH (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
1978 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #1D2E5B
Size
445 × 105 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Oldtimer regime on a SIDECODE-2 registration (99-99-XX). Second of the three shapes RDW's "2 groepen van 2 cijfers en 1 groep van 2 letters" rule admits.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the 2+2 digits / 2 letters rule admits the sidecode-2 shape 99-99-XX https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/soorten-kentekenplaten
  2. sidecode 2 = 99-99-XX https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-historic-darkblue-sidecode2. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Netherlands's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/nl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "nl-historic-darkblue-sidecode2")'
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