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Vatican City license plate: SCV 1988

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

Vatican City license plate, SCV 1988 (1988 to today), sample SCV 78502
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Format, years and the law

Format
SCV 99999, for example SCV 78502 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
1988 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE STATE REGISTER. SCV is reserved by the Governatorato to "le auto di proprietà dello Stato e degli Enti della Santa Sede", vehicles owned by the State and by entities of the Holy See. This is the older of the two sigle: every Vatican plate from 1930 until the 1988 reform was an SCV plate, and CV exists only from 1988.
About its years
31 January 1988 is the reported start of the current CV/SCV system, given by it.wikipedia and consistent with targheitaliane.it's account of a 1988 renumbering. NO INSTRUMENT WAS REACHED. This is exactly the case the instrument-date rule warns about in reverse, here there is no instrument whose date could be mistaken for the series start, because there is no instrument at all.
How numbers are issued
Progressive. targheitaliane.it reports SCV car numbering running from about 00526 and SCV motorcycle numbering from about 0056 at the 1988 renumbering; both figures are ENTHUSIAST-SOURCED and are recorded as approximate starting points, not as range boundaries. No Vatican plate encodes a date or a location.
Format notes
Five progressive digits for motor cars, reported concordantly by it.wikipedia and targheitaliane.it, and consistent with the observed "SCV.00893" and "CV 03566".

Legal basis and sources

  1. PRIMARY (official Governatorato page): the SCV eligibility rule, verbatim, and 'La sigla internazionale è V.' https://www.vaticanstate.va/it/stato-governo/note-generali/sigle-automobilistiche.html
  2. it.wikipedia.org https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targhe_d%27immatricolazione_della_Citt%C3%A0_del_Vaticano
  3. ENTHUSIAST REFERENCE: the 1988 renumbering and the approximate SCV starting numbers https://www.targheitaliane.it/vatican/vatican_i.html

Before and after

Vatican City license plate, SCV 1930 (1930 to 1988) It replaced SCV 1930 1930 to 1988

This plate in your app

The series id is va-scv-1988. 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-1988")'
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