# Vatican City license plate: SCV 1988

> The Vatican City SCV 1988 license plate: format SCV 99999, for example SCV 78502, 1988 to today, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [Vatican City license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/vatican-city) (8 registration series).

![Vatican City license plate, SCV 1988 (1988 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/va/va-scv-1988/vatican-city-license-plate-scv-1988.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `SCV 99999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | 1988 → today |
| Class | government |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000 |
| Rear plate differs from the front | yes |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `va-scv-1988` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/vatican-city/scv-1988) |

Sources:

- [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)
- [it.wikipedia.org](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targhe_d%27immatricolazione_della_Citt%C3%A0_del_Vaticano)
- [ENTHUSIAST REFERENCE: the 1988 renumbering and the approximate SCV starting numbers](https://www.targheitaliane.it/vatican/vatican_i.html)

## 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".

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [SCV 1930](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/vatican-city/scv-1930) | 1930 to 1988 |

## Other government plates here

- [Papal red](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/vatican-city/papal-red) (2002 to today)
- [Cardinal red](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/vatican-city/cardinal-red) (from 1930, no longer issued)
- [SCV 1930](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/vatican-city/scv-1930) (1930 to 1988)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/va/va-scv-1988.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/vatican-city?series=va-scv-1988
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/va` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "va-scv-1988"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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