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San Marino license plate: Diplomatic CD 1976

Retired 1976 to 1986. Diplomatic plates for car and van, issued by Ufficio Registro Automezzi, Repubblica di San Marino. One of 19 San Marino license plates.

The only pearl-grey plate San Marino has ever issued, and the only one with two shades of blue on the same metal: dark "blu" for RSM and the digits, lighter "azzurro" for the CD.

San Marino license plate, Diplomatic CD 1976 (1976 to 1986), sample CD97
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Format, years and the law

Format
CD99, for example CD97 (9 any digit)

CD is the Corpo Diplomatico, and this pearl-grey plate kept RSM alive after the ordinary series dropped it, painting the two in different blues: "blu" for RSM and the digits, lighter "azzurro" for the CD.

CD
Corpo Diplomatico (diplomatic corps)
RSM
Repubblica di San Marino (Republic of San Marino)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
1976 to 1986. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #003399 Background #C8C8C0
Size
486 × 109 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE 1976 DIPLOMATIC PLATE, pearl grey, 486x109 mm, and one of only two places RSM survived on a San Marino plate after the ordinary series dropped it (the other being the 2006 historic plate). It also used TWO shades of blue at once: "blu" for RSM and the digits, "azzurro" for the CD sigla. Recorded because it is the sharpest counterexample to the idea that San Marino has always used one plate design.
About its years
Decreto 7 ottobre 1976 n. 55, posted in the Pubblico Palazzo on 8 October 1976, creates the CD plate; Decreto 151/1986 art. 2 replaces the specification. The 1976 plate is a genuinely different object, not a restyling, see the design block.
Format notes
'Numeri con due cifre', two digits, stated in terms.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Decreto 7 ottobre 1976 n. 55, articolo unico https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17019324.html

Before and after

San Marino license plate, Diplomatic CD 1986 (documented since 1986) Replaced by Diplomatic CD 1986 documented since 1986

This plate in your app

The series id is sm-diplomatic-cd-1976. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of San Marino's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/sm \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "sm-diplomatic-cd-1976")'
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