# San Marino license plate: Standard 2022 > The San Marino standard 2022 license plate: format L9999, for example U0847, documented since 2022, car, van, truck, and bus. Page: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino/standard-2022 · Markdown version of the HTML page, which is canonical. Site map: https://vehiclesdb.com/llms.txt · Terms of use: https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/terms Part of [San Marino license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino) (19 registration series). ![San Marino license plate, Standard 2022 (documented since 2022)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sm/sm-standard-2022/san-marino-license-plate-standard-2022.svg) | Fact | Value | |---|---| | Format | `L9999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) | | Years | ~2022 → today (documented from 2022; the format is likely older) | | Class | standard | | Issued for | car, van, truck, bus | | Plate size | 390 × 120 mm | | Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #005387 | | Rear plate differs from the front | yes | | Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. | | Series id | `sm-standard-2022` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino/standard-2022) | The current plate split from its 1993 ancestor for one reason: the front plate shrank to 300×100 mm to fit sports cars with shallow recesses, while the rear stayed 390×120 — the same car now legally carries two different plate sizes at once. Still letter-plus-counter, but the alphabet is curated: D, E, I, O, Q and R are skipped — some too easily misread, others already claimed by the export and trailer series — and U was only admitted in 2022, as the plate's twentieth letter. Sources: - [Decreto Delegato 16 settembre 2022 n. 132, artt. 2, 3, 9: front 300x100 and rear 390x120, the 20-letter alphabet, the run-off and the RAL 5017 date](https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17134662.html) - [ratification by the Consiglio Grande e Generale, 17 October 2022, Delibera n. 5](https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17135320.html) - [errata corrige of 26 October 2022 — corrects two entries in the art. 8 price table only; it does NOT touch dimensions, colour or dates](https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17135471.html) ## About this plate THE CURRENT ORDINARY SERIES. Same letter+four-digit grammar as 1993, but a smaller FRONT plate (300x100 mm), a twentieth letter (U), and RAL 5017 blue from 1 July 2023. NOTE the motorcycle and moped series below are NOT split at 2022, because their plate SIZE did not change, only character metrics and the colour, both of which are dated design facts within one series. That asymmetry is deliberate and is the §2.3 test applied consistently. ## About its years 16 September 2022, the date DD 132/2022 was made, published and came into force, all three being the same day per the archive's metadata. THE SMALL FRONT PLATE IS LAWFUL FROM THAT DATE. It is tempting to date this series to 1 July 2023 because that is the date most often reported, but art. 9(2) makes 1 July 2023 the date the blue becomes RAL 5017, a colour date applying to ALL series, and art. 9(1) makes 30 June 2023 the last day for OLD stock. Neither is this series' start. See header finding 3. ## Before and after | Relation | Series | Years | |---|---|---| | It replaced | [Standard 1993](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino/standard-1993) | 1993 to 2023 | ## Other standard plates here - [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) - [RSM](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino/rsm-1922) (documented 1922 to 1986) ## Use it - Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sm/sm-standard-2022.svg - Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/san-marino?series=sm-standard-2022 - API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/sm` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "sm-standard-2022"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api) --- Open data, CC BY 4.0: reuse it with a visible credit to VehiclesDB and a link (https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/attribution). Plate images show sample serials and are not open data (https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/image-license). Dataset commit db0ec0a: https://github.com/vehiclesdb/vehiclesdb