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Vatican City license plate: SCV 1930

Retired 1930 to 1988. Government plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Governatorato dello Stato della Città del Vaticano. One of 8 Vatican City license plates.

Vatican City license plate, SCV 1930 (1930 to 1988), sample SCV 4713
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Format, years and the law

Format
SCV 9999, for example SCV 4713 (9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
1930 to 1988. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE ORIGINAL AND, UNTIL 1988, THE ONLY VATICAN REGISTER, private vehicles of Vatican residents also carried SCV, because CV did not yet exist.
About its years
1930 is given concordantly by it.wikipedia and targheitaliane.it, both placing the first Vatican plates about a year after the Lateran Treaty of 11 February 1929. The END is the 1988 reform that introduced CV and dropped the dots. Neither boundary rests on an instrument.
Separators
PRINTED WITH DOTS as "S.C.V." for most or all of this period, and the rear plate carried the sigla on one line and the number on another.

Legal basis and sources

  1. it.wikipedia.org https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targhe_d%27immatricolazione_della_Citt%C3%A0_del_Vaticano
  2. ENTHUSIAST REFERENCE: 'La Città del Vaticano ha iniziato a produrre targhe nel 1930'; black on white; SCV plus an increasing number https://www.targheitaliane.it/vatican/vatican_i.html

Before and after

Vatican City license plate, SCV 1988 (1988 to today) Replaced by SCV 1988 1988 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is va-scv-1930. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Vatican City's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/va \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "va-scv-1930")'
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