US PLATES

Bill's USA License Plates
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This set contains nothing of much value or unusual interest. It is simply a self-indulgence, shared here with you.

My intent is to build a set of modern US passenger plates. Modern is a broad term, and may include plates as old as from the 1980's, when graphic plates began to become popular. This set will not be from any particular year, but in general they will be embossed or debossed plates rather than screen-printed (flat). Other than that I am choosing to go for the graphic design that I like and can obtain. In a very few cases there are more than one for a particular state, based simply on my likes. You will see also a very few older plates with no graphics, just because I happen to particularly like them.

This collection also includes the populated US overseas territories including the defunct Panama Canal Zone,
and the leased Guantanamo Bay territory. For the territories there are in some cases both modern and historic plates.

Note that I am not including plates used in other countries by US Forces, though I do have or have had plates of this sort.

State or Territory	Plate and/or comments
ALABAMA	PENDING
ALASKA


ARIZONA	This Desert-scape graphic design has been used since 1996. Early plates had embossed serials in the format 123ABC. The plate above is in the later ABC1234 format, which from its start at AAA0001 had flat serials. I am hoping to get an embossed passenger plate. This embossed plate is a 1998 Commercial base with 2001 sticker. The CA to CE prefixes and part of the CF's were embossed. All after had screen-printed (flat) serials.
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO
CONNECTICUT	PENDING
DELAWARE	Although my aim is to include only modern embossed plates with graphics, this is impossible when it comes to Delaware. This state went straight from the unusual riveted type shown above, to the flat screened type shown below, used there now for many years, and with no graphics.
FLORIDA
GEORGIA
HAWAII
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
INDIANA	PENDING
IOWA
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
LOUISIANA	NEWER IS PENDING
MAINE
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS	PENDING
MICHIGAN
MINNESOTA
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
MONTANA	PENDING
NEBRASKA	PENDING
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
NEW JERSEY	PENDING
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
OKLAHOMA	PENDING
OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA	PENDING
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
TEXAS
UTAH (This state is of special interest, as a family member is from Utah)	"Ski Utah!" was introduced in 1985 and was a standard issue until discontinued in 2008 and replaced by the optional (at first) red top ski plate. The "Arches" plate was introduced in 1992 as an extra-cost optional plate, but in 1997 became a standard issue, along with the Ski Utah! type. The Olympic plate was a popular extra-cost issue, now discontinued but still renewable and valid. The red top plate began as an optional in 2007 but from 2017 it became a standard, along with the Arches plate and "In God We Trust"
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN	PENDING
WYOMING
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	a Capital City is pending Wanted taxation without representation
US VIRGIN ISLANDS	This is the 1993 St. Croix passenger base with 1999 variation (diamond) manufactured by MVLS. 2016 series. T prefix indicates island of St. Thomas
PUERTO RICO	This is a non-passenger plate, and is a placeholder. I am looking for a modern passenger graphic plate from PR
GUANTANAMO BAY (leased territory)
CANAL ZONE (to 1979)	This 1973 passenger plate is not in pristine condition but it is special to me as I transited the Panama Canal in 1973 and actually set foot in the Canal Zone when we brieflydocked at each end. The Canal Zone was absorbed into Panama in 1979.
AMERICAN SAMOA


GUAM
NORTHERN MARIANAS ISLANDS
NORTHERN MARIANAS ISLANDS