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San Marino license plate: Historic H

Issued today Documented since 2006. Historic plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Ufficio Registro Automezzi, Repubblica di San Marino. One of 19 San Marino license plates.

San Marino license plate, Historic H (documented since 2006), sample H709
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Format, years and the law

Format
H999, for example H709 (9 any digit)

The H prefix marks a certified historic vehicle; no instrument spells out what H abbreviates. The design is deliberate nostalgia, RSM, dropped from ordinary plates in 1986, returns here as it did on the pre-1976 originals it imitates.

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
Documented since 2006; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #003399 Background #FFF4C1
Size
267 × 63 mm · every country's size

  • Historic H 280.8×203.6 mm

    historic · 280.8 × 203.6 mm

About this plate
HISTORIC / COLLECTOR VEHICLES, from 2006. Issued by the Ufficio Registro Automezzi on the application of the Automobile Club San Marino / Automotoclub Storico Sammarinese under Legge 16 gennaio 1997 n. 8. The design deliberately evokes the pre-1976 plate, including the return of RSM. Motorcycles take the 165x165 mm square.
Format notes
A RED H followed by three BLUE digits, with RSM in blue also on the plate, one of only two places RSM survives on a San Marino plate. The front plate reads H, digits, RSM on one line; the rear puts RSM on the upper row and the H plus digits on the lower.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Decreto 15 marzo 2006 n. 65 art. 2 https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17023371.html

This plate in your app

The series id is sm-historic-h. 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-historic-h")'
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