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.
1960BCA-100 - EMZ-999
There is another series of Arkansas 'B' plates
(BFA - BJ?)
Joe Wasielewski
Ed B
Somewhere between BJA and BJL, production returned to New Jersey.
The "D" series was reserved
for DEALER plates.
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
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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