Bill's USA License Plates
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Last updated October 29, 2023

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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

 


 
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

 
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