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Spain license plate: Historic

Issued today Documented since 1999. Historic plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and moped, issued by Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT). One of 19 Spain license plates.

Spain license plate, Historic (documented since 1999), sample H2459FTM
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Format, years and the law

Format
H9999LLL, for example H2459FTM (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The leading H stands for vehículo Histórico, a registered historic vehicle. Otherwise the plate reads exactly like the ordinary series.

H
Vehículo histórico (historic vehicle)

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

Years issued
Documented since 1999; 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, motorcycle, and moped.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Spain license plate, Historic 340×220 mm (documented since 1999)

    Historic 340×220 mm

    historic · 340 × 220 mm

  • Spain license plate, Historic 220×160 mm (documented since 1999)

    Historic 220×160 mm

    historic · 220 × 160 mm

  • Spain license plate, Historic 100×168 mm (documented since 1999)

    Historic 100×168 mm

    historic · 100 × 168 mm

About this plate
VEHÍCULO HISTÓRICO. Visually near-identical to the ordinary series (white/black) and distinguished by the H prefix rather than by colour, the opposite design choice to the Netherlands, whose oldtimer plate is dark blue but keeps its original serial. Spain has a dedicated historic SERIAL SERIES; the Netherlands has a dedicated historic DESIGN.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII I.B.c) vehículo histórico: white ground, black matte characters, letter H + 4 digits + 3 letters; Cuadro 1 four histórico rows https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is es-historic-1999. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Spain's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/es \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "es-historic-1999")'
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