San Marino license plate: Standard 1993
Retired 1993 to 2023. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, 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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L9999, for exampleL1985(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The letter is a counter, not a code: it steps forward once the four digits are spent. A San Marino plate can tell you roughly when it was issued, never where, the whole country is one registration district.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1993 to 2023. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#003399Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 390 × 120 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE 1993 ORDINARY SERIES: letter plus four digits, 390x120 mm front AND rear, blue on white. Decreto 109/1993 also abolished the revision-sticker obligation (art. 3), which is why the 27 mm raised circle prescribed by the 1986 decree disappears from the plate.
- About its years
- START 1993: Decreto 29 settembre 1993 n. 109 art. 1 introduces "un carattere alfabetico seguito da quattro caratteri numerici", and art. 4 commences it immediately, "Il sistema di targatura di cui all'Art. 1 entra in vigore immediatamente e le targhe saranno consegnate progressivamente con l'esaurimento delle targhe di vecchio tipo ancora in giacenza presso l'Ufficio Registro Automezzi." Note that the instrument itself provides for a phased rollout, so 1993 is when issuance BEGAN, not when the old plate stopped. END 2023: DD 132/2022 art. 9(1) sets the hard stop, old-format plates issue "fino a esaurimento delle giacenze d'ufficio e comunque non oltre il 30 giugno 2023." The widely-repeated "3 December 1993" appears in no primary text; see header finding 2.
- Separators
- The decree prescribes "un carattere alfabetico seguito da quattro caratteri numerici" with NO separator glyph and no gap specification, so the pattern spells the serial unbroken.
Legal basis and sources
- Decreto 29 settembre 1993 n. 109, artt. 1-4: the letter+4-digit format, the 19-letter alphabet, immediate commencement and phased issue https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/archivio-leggi-decreti-e-regolamenti/documento17021492.html
- DD 132/2022 art. 9(1): old-format stock issues no later than 30 June 2023 https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17134662.html
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is sm-standard-1993. 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-standard-1993")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sm/sm-standard-1993.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sm/sm-standard-1993/template.svg
