Strange vehicle number plate

iainscomputer

CKhalvashi said:

It could be Greek, not sure if the region code comes to something. It would have to have been re-made though.
https://olavsplates.com/greece.html

It could also be from Transnistria as that typeface looks somewhat familiar and if it's not that I couldn't place it. I can't remember the layout of these. These would normally have a sticker somewhere on it though.

It could be a new issue Kazkah plate (again re-made).

The typeface looks to be somewhat Dutch, but the plates would be the wrong colour.

You can get Dutch cars on export plates which are white instead of the usual Dutch yellow plates, but all the one’s I’ve seen have 6 digits & in the usual Dutch format, I’m usually quite good at identifying a cars origin, but I can’t be sure on this one.

CKhalvashi

iainscomputer said:

CKhalvashi said:

It could be Greek, not sure if the region code comes to something. It would have to have been re-made though.
https://olavsplates.com/greece.html

It could also be from Transnistria as that typeface looks somewhat familiar and if it's not that I couldn't place it. I can't remember the layout of these. These would normally have a sticker somewhere on it though.

It could be a new issue Kazkah plate (again re-made).

The typeface looks to be somewhat Dutch, but the plates would be the wrong colour.

You can get Dutch cars on export plates which are white instead of the usual Dutch yellow plates, but all the one’s I’ve seen have 6 digits & in the usual Dutch format, I’m usually quite good at identifying a cars origin, but I can’t be sure on this one.

Right you are. Thinking about this, I have seen those in a few countries.

I'd suggest most likely Greek re-made in NL (if the plate fell off or was damaged for example)

Having done some more research, it wouldn't fit the Transnistria (an autonomous region of Moldova) standards and wouldn't be valid for travel outside Moldova anyway, standard Moldovan or Ukrainian plates would be required at least to transit to the destination. These use the formal LNNNLL (first letter is the region code). They are the correct font though but with missing compulsory markers.

Kazakh new plates would be missing a 0 or 1 from the region code, they're also NNNLLL then the region code (01-20), so it would suggest it couldn't be this. I thought the letters came first. You don't see many vehicles from that area here though.

Manxman_in_exile

chuwi said:

Isle of Mann? Otherwise the font looks like the Dutch one to me and my memory (uh-oh), but their plates on the front are (were?) yellow.

It's nothing like a Manx number...

Money_Grabber13579

Car_54 said:

Isn't that a normal Northern Ireland number?

Nope. Right format but wrong combination of letters.

Car_54

Money_Grabber13579 said:

Car_54 said:

Isn't that a normal Northern Ireland number?

Nope. Right format but wrong combination of letters.

See my later post. It’s most likely an old-style Irish Republic number (Dublin City), probably used on a newer Irish car as a “dateless” plate.
That would explain the absence of national ID stickers, which aren’t needed between UK and ROI.
ROI changed to their current format in the 80s, but as you know the older format is still used in NI, although with a different set of available letters.

Goudy

It's not Greek.
No prefecture uses XZ except Athens but that's only for motorcycles.

Sweden use a three and three, usually three letters and three numbers (or two numbers and a letter).

It's a odd plate and by the looks of it someone has messed with the spacing.
I would guess it's Polish.
They use the three and four combo and X is used in a couple of "Powiats" or counties.

CKhalvashi

Goudy said:

It's not Greek.
No prefecture uses XZ except Athens but that's only for motorcycles.

Sweden use a three and three, usually three letters and three numbers (or two numbers and a letter).

It's a odd plate and by the looks of it someone has messed with the spacing.
I would guess it's Polish.
They use the three and four combo and X is used in a couple of "Powiats" or counties.

The Polish code starting with X hasn't existed since the 1970s.

SiL lives in Poland, in the powiat where they were issued. Hers starts with DWR, followed by 4 numbers and a letter.

Taken that the Greek code is one only used for motorcycles.

Herzlos

The font and lack of country code makes me think it's a diplomatic plate, which would also fit with it being LHD but I thought they were usually 111 X 111.

I've no idea if they'd show up in an MOT/insurance checker.

Goudy

Herzlos said:

The font and lack of country code makes me think it's a diplomatic plate, which would also fit with it being LHD but I thought they were usually 111 X 111.

I've no idea if they'd show up in an MOT/insurance checker.

I was thinking something similar, but perhaps not a UK registered diplomatic vehicle, which as you say tends to go either 111 X 111 for outside London and 111 D 111 inside London.

I was also think the lack of any country identifier might mean it's an unpopular country's vehicle.

Where was the photo taken, have you a street name?

Car_54

Goudy said:

Herzlos said:

The font and lack of country code makes me think it's a diplomatic plate, which would also fit with it being LHD but I thought they were usually 111 X 111.

I've no idea if they'd show up in an MOT/insurance checker.

I was thinking something similar, but perhaps not a UK registered diplomatic vehicle, which as you say tends to go either 111 X 111 for outside London and 111 D 111 inside London.

I was also think the lack of any country identifier might mean it's an unpopular country's vehicle.

Where was the photo taken, have you a street name?

AFAIK 'NNNDNNN' plates are reserved for 'genuine' diplomats, i.e. persons with diplomatic immunity. 'NNNXNNN' plates are for ancillary embassy staff and hangers-on. The leading three digits identify the country involved.

No country identifier is needed for the Irish Republic, Isle of Man, Jersey or Guernsey.