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Poland license plate: Historic

Issued today 2000 to today. Historic plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Ministerstwo Infrastruktury. One of 17 Poland license plates.

Poland license plate, Historic (2000 to today), sample PZ 67G
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99L, for example PZ 67G (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
2000 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F5D800
Size
520 × 114 mm · every country's size
  • Poland license plate, Historic 305×214 mm (2000 to today)

    Historic 305×214 mm

    historic · 305 × 214 mm

  • Poland license plate, Historic 190×150 mm (2000 to today)

    Historic 190×150 mm

    historic · 190 × 150 mm

  • Poland license plate, Historic 305×114 mm (2000 to today)

    Historic 305×114 mm

    historic · 305 × 114 mm

About this plate
U. 1998 nr 57 poz. 365 § 17 ust. Eligibility is not in this instrument: it runs through the entry of the vehicle in the wojewódzka ewidencja zabytków or the acquisition of a rzeczoznawca's certificate, which is a heritage question rather than a plate question and is out of scope for this file.
How numbers are issued
§ 30 ust. 2 pkt 5, the SHORTEST civil serials in the system. A one-letter powiat gets two digits and a letter, then three digits; a two-letter powiat gets a digit and a letter, then two digits, then a letter and a digit. A historic plate is therefore five characters in total where an ordinary one is seven or eight, which is the quickest way to recognise one after the colour.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 25 pkt 3, § 27 ust. 6-7, § 30 ust. 2 pkt 5; załącznik nr 12 pkt 2.7 and Rysunki 3, 17-19. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2024/1709/text/O/D20241709.pdf
  2. Dz. U. 1999 nr 59 poz. 632 § 18 ust. 5 (black on yellow with the pictogram) and § 21 ust. 2 pkt 5 (the short grammar), commenced with the rest of the plate provisions on 1 May 2000 by § 49. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/1999/632/text/O/D19990632.pdf
  3. Dz. U. 1998 nr 57 poz. 365 § 17 ust. 5 and § 20 ust. 2 pkt 3, the yellow historic plate ALREADY existed before the 2000 reform, under the old two-letter voivodeship coding. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/1998/365/text/O/D19980365.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is pl-historic. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Poland's series:

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