New Jersey license plate: Garden state embossed

Retired Documented 2010 to 2014. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJ MVC). One of 11 New Jersey license plates.

New Jersey (United States) license plate, Garden state embossed (documented 2010 to 2014), sample K20 KKX

Format, years and the law

Format
L99 LLL, for example K20 KKX (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 2010 to 2014; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #231F20
About this plate
GARDEN STATE, EMBOSSED (2010-2014). The previous base. Any era-inference feature over New Jersey must say so.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Jersey

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nj-garden-state-embossed. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Jersey's series:

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