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New Hampshire License Plates

New Hampshire requires two plates for most vehicles and still issues stickers in 2024.

Standard Passenger Plates

Passenger

555 2377

Nolan Cota - Jan 25 ’25

The current base began issue in January, 1999, replacing all previous bases by the end of March, 2000.

Tom Castelli reports that NH started the new issue with 999 999 and worked back to 100 000, then began up from 100 0000. Β Jason reports that as NH plates were working down, 5 digit numbers were being assigned in late 2000 and early 2001. Β Vanity plates with 7 characters were not available until several years after 7 digit passenger plates appeared.

Low: Β 999 820 Β 

High: Β 104 264

Low for 100 0000 series: Β 100 3103 Β 2014-01-06 Β Gunther Frostyburger

Non-passenger Plates

Government (Municipal)

G30914

Larry David - Sep 18 ’24

A new series for Municipal Police is now in use. These plates are blue on white without the Old Man graphic, and have M/P stacked on the left, followed by two sets of numerals. The first three are an identification of the police authority, which varies from town to town and city to city. The second number is a sequence of vehicle numbers associated with that authority. A small town may have only one vehicle, in which case the plate number would be M/P XXX 1.

Temporary

3659734

Nicholas Whalley - Jan 16 ’25

Jason Taylor advises that NH issues several types of Temporary plates. The type with red numbers is issued by dealers for use after a sale and is good for 30 days. The type with black numbers is more of a temporary transit plate and has the expiration hand written at the bottom. Both of these types are 6 digit numeric. The third type has a hand written vanity registration and is used while vanity plates are being made.

After years of returning to 000001 after hitting 999999, it appears they have expanded the red Temporary plates to 7 digits now.

There is some possibility that the black number type is now only being issued from the state and town halls, while the red number plates are just from dealers.

Specialty Plates

Moose

CH
5M117

Larry David - Dec 17 ’24

Conservation Heritage

Started at C/H1C and went through C/H9999C, then C/H100C0 and up. The letter was always C. The C/H10C00 series was issued through C/H99C99, then the C/H1C000 series was used, followed by the C/H C1000 series. Then the letter changed to H and the C/H1H and up series was issued, then the C/H 100H0 series, and then the C/H10H00 series, then C/H1H000, and now C/H H1000 is in use.

State Parks

426119

Larry David - Apr 5 ’20

State Parks sticker to the left of the numerals and the Old Man to the right. The numbering probably started at 100000.

From Tom Castelli: Having this specialty plate (issued for an extra $85 annual fee plus $8 one-time application fee) grants free admission for the car's driver and all passengers to any New Hampshire State Park. Also issued in Moose (conservation) variety.

Military and Veteran Plates

Active Duty Military

8435BS

Nathan Reznik - Jun 4 ’24

NEW HAMPSHIRE is spelled out in blue on top, LIVE FREE OR DIE in red below that, a bar of five white stars on blue on the left edge, and a bar of red stripes on white on the right edge. Blue numerals on a white background between the stars and stripes. Below that are the words ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY in blue. The plates likely start at 10001.

Gold Star Mother

GS
94

Larry David - Nov 5 ’13

LIVE FREE OR DIE on top, the script New Hampshire on the bottom, all in blue letters and numbers. The Gold Star symbol is on the left (gold star on a hanging flag), the words GOLD STAR above and MOTHER below the flag, in red. The letters GS are then stacked to the left of the tag number. Both the GS and the number are in blue. The plate background is red on the left, white in the center, and blue to the right, and the colors blend together at their boundaries.

National Guard

2081

Larry David - Sep 14 ’14

Larry David reports a change in the National Guard plate. They used to have green numerals and letters on the white background, with a green colonial soldier to the right of the number, and the base was what was used prior to 2000. The new plate resembles the Veteran plates--blue on white, with red trim, and a colonial soldier in blue to the right of the number, with NATIONAL GUARD over the number.