San Marino license plate: Export E
Issued today Documented since 1990. Export plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Ufficio Registro Automezzi, Repubblica di San Marino. One of 19 San Marino license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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E9999, for exampleE3456(9 any digit)The red E marks the export series: provisional plates for vehicles leaving San Marino permanently, set apart from every other series by monochrome national arms and plain black characters.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 1990; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Export: plates for vehicles leaving the jurisdiction permanently. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 390 × 120 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- EXPORT / PROVISIONAL PLATES for vehicles leaving San Marino permanently. Distinguished from every other series by monochrome arms and black characters. Still live and still being amended in 2026.
- Format notes
- Decreto 20 febbraio 1990 n. 34 art. 1: provisional plates for vehicles struck off the register "per esportazione all'estero" carry a RED letter E (79 mm high on cars, 53 mm on motorcycles) followed by BLACK digits. This is why E is excluded from the ordinary alphabet, the second functional reservation, alongside R.
Legal basis and sources
- Decreto 20 febbraio 1990 n. 34 art. 1 https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17020984.html
- Decreto Delegato 27 luglio 2026 n. 96, articolo unico, the pending grammar change and its exhaustion trigger https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17159835.html
This plate in your app
The series id is sm-export-e. 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-export-e")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sm/sm-export-e.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sm/sm-export-e/template.svg
