{"id":36,"date":"2018-06-18T19:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/wordpress\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:28:02","slug":"license-plates-of-the-commonwealth-of-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"License Plates of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"

Founded, 1776; population, 13,002,700; capital, Harrisburg.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania utilized enamel plates from 1906 to 1915; plates from 1916 to the present are of metal.<\/p>\n

A metal \u201c43\u201d tab was used on the 1942 base plate. Paper expiry stickers were used from 1959 to 2017.<\/p>\n

For a period of 67 years (1923-1990) Pennsylvania plates were issued in alternating navy-on-gold, gold-on-navy formats.<\/p>\n

In May 2025 Pennsylvania issued the Let Freedom Ring\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>plate design: registration lettering and digits in blue, and state name and slogan in red, all on a white background. For the first time since 1958 the plate design lacks the keystone symbol, and registration numbering now includes a “slashed zero”. Registrations have now reached NGH<\/strong><\/em>\u00a01234 <\/strong><\/em>for passenger cars, VCW<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>1234<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>for commercial vehicles (pick-up trucks, vans, etc), and\u00a0XRS 1234 <\/strong><\/em>for trailers.<\/p>\n

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Founded, 1776; population, 13,002,700; capital, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania utilized enamel plates from 1906 to 1915; plates from 1916 to the present are of metal. A metal \u201c43\u201d tab was used on the 1942 base plate. Paper expiry stickers were used from… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":237,"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}