Passenger Plates
1959 - 1973
Starting in June 1959, New Jersey started a replate with this new black on "buff" base.
All plates issued from this point forward are still valid on the roads today.
A special thanks to Ed Butler for the year-by-year prefix data from 1959-2004.
1959June - December
AAA-100 - BBZ-999
A number of B-series plates were made in Arkansas. Notice the different "B" die on BAV-854 - the Arkansas "B" does not have serifs.
BBB-991 has *both* types of B dies. The origin of this plate is unknown.
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1960BCA-100 - EMZ-999
There is another series of Arkansas 'B' plates
starting somewhere in the
BE series.
Dave Zullo
Joe Wasielewski
Ed B
Somewhere between BJA and BJL, production returned to New Jersey. The different 'B' die without serifs was not seen after this.
The "D" series was reserved
for DEALER plates.
Somewhere between EIX and EUI, the die for the letter I changed, and the serifs got much shorter.
1961ENA-100 - FGZ-999
1962FHA-100 - GHZ-999
1963GIA-100 - IAZ-999
1964IBA-100 - JDZ-999
1965JEA-100 - KMZ-999
1966KNA-100 - LOZ-999
1967LPA-100 - NFZ-999
1968NGA-100 - RAZ-999
The "O" series was reserved
for OMNIBUS plates.
The "Q" series was reserved
for HISTORIC plates.
1969RBA-100 - RUZ-999
As of RIA-100, experimental reflectorized plates were issued. They continued until SZZ-999.
REFLECTORIZED
REFLECTORIZED
1970RVA-100 - UBZ-999
REFLECTORIZED
REFLECTORIZED
REFLECTORIZED
REFLECTORIZED
REFLECTORIZED
REFLECTORIZED
REFLECTORIZED
The "T" series was reserved
for TRAILER plates.
Starting with UAA-100, reflectorization stopped, and standard painted plates started again.
1971UCA-100 - VTZ-999
1972VUA-100 - YIZ-999
The "X" series was reserved
for COMMERCIAL plates.
1973January - July
YJA-100 - YZZ-999
Issued on July 12, 1973
This series ended at YZZ-999 in July of 1973.
The "Z" series was never used - it was originally reserved for COMMERCIAL plates.
We'll see the missing Z series later - on the blue base in 1985).
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