# San Marino license plate: RSM

> The San Marino RSM license plate: format RSM 999, for example RSM 156, documented 1922 to 1986, car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.

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Part of [San Marino license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino) (19 registration series).

![San Marino license plate, RSM (documented 1922 to 1986)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sm/sm-rsm-1922/san-marino-license-plate-rsm.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `RSM 999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | ~1922–1986 (documented from 1922; the format is likely older) |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #0087DC |
| Rear plate differs from the front | yes |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `sm-rsm-1922` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino/rsm-1922) |

The earliest registration the law reaches was never a plate at all: the 1922 Regolamento required RSM and the number to be painted directly onto the front of the vehicle, with an actual plate only at the rear.

RSM is the Republic itself — Repubblica di San Marino — followed by a plain number: with a fleet this small, the country's initials plus a counter were the whole system for sixty years.

| Code | Stands for | English |
|---|---|---|
| `RSM` | Repubblica di San Marino | Republic of San Marino |

Sources:

- [Regolamento 6 marzo 1922 n. 13, art. 11 third comma](https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17016996.html)

## About this plate

THE ROOT SERIES, and the root INSTRUMENT: art. 11 of the 1922 Regolamento is still the formal target of amendment a century later, DD 132/2022 art. 2 operates by replacing "Il terzo comma dell'articolo 11 del Regolamento 6 marzo 1922 n. 13". Modelled as one long series because no instrument read draws a generation boundary inside it; secondary accounts describe several plate generations between 1922 and 1986 and none of those boundaries could be dated to an instrument, so none is asserted.

## About its years

START: Regolamento 6 marzo 1922 n. 13, "Norme generali sui veicoli e sulla circolazione". Recorded as an UPPER bound on the start rather than a certain origin, this is the earliest instrument reached, and whether any earlier San Marino registration existed was not established. END: the 1922 art. 11 third comma was replaced by Decreto 151/1986 art. 1.

## Separators

PRINTED WITH DOTS as "R.S.M.". The same limitation as the Swiss mid-height point.

## Format notes

Art. 11 prescribes "l'indicazione in azzurro su fondo bianco 'R.S.M.' ed il numero della licenza di circolazione", it names the components and gives their HEIGHT (10 cm, stroke 1 cm) but never a digit count or ceiling, across a 64-year span. A match is a shape hit and nothing more.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Replaced by | [Standard 1986](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino/standard-1986) | 1986 to 1993 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard 2022](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino/standard-2022) (documented since 2022)
- [Standard 1993](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino/standard-1993) (1993 to 2023)
- [Standard 1986](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino/standard-1986) (1986 to 1993)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sm/sm-rsm-1922.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/san-marino?series=sm-rsm-1922
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/sm` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "sm-rsm-1922"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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