Slovakia license plate: Historic

Issued today Documented since 2009. Historic plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Ministerstvo vnútra Slovenskej republiky. One of 21 Slovakia license plates.

Slovakia license plate, Historic (documented since 2009), sample VMH675

Format, years and the law

Format
LLH999, for example VMH675 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented since 2009; 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, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #CC0000 Background #FFCC00
Size
240 × 150 mm · every country's size
  • Slovakia license plate, Historic 520×110 mm (documented since 2009)

    Historic 520×110 mm

    historic · 520 × 110 mm

  • Slovakia license plate, Historic 340×200 mm (documented since 2009)

    Historic 340×200 mm

    historic · 340 × 200 mm

  • Slovakia license plate, Historic 145×110 mm (documented since 2009)

    Historic 145×110 mm

    historic · 145 × 110 mm

About this plate
THE H PLATE, red on yellow. 1 covers vehicles "ktoré nepodlieha evidencii a je historickým alebo športovým vozidlom").

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 127 ods. 1 (historic vehicles not subject to registration may use the road only with a zvláštne evidenčné číslo), ods. 3 (one-line option for H and S), ods. 5, ods. 8. https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2009/8/ZZ_2009_8_20230101.pdf
  2. § 35 ods. 5 (the four permitted plate sizes) and § 36 ods. 1 písm. c) (red on yellow). https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2009/9/ZZ_2009_9_20220801.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is sk-historic. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Slovakia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/sk \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "sk-historic")'