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Strange vehicle number plate
Spotted by me in London. Someone at the garage outside which it was parked said 'one of the Scandinavian countries' but according to google - no.

Any ideas where this is from?

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Left or right hand drive?

It looks like one of the very cheap UK private plates done with odd spacing
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Def LHD, and I looked at the windscreen to see if any tell-tale tax discs / dealer stickers etc but none.

Not UK format as that wouldn't have 3 letters/space/3 digits/space/1 digit
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Is there another plate under?
When i look to the way of writing on the plate I would guess the plate is made in the Netherlands. The absence of any sticker or sign may indicate it is a unofficial plate. Did you check the plate on the back of the car?
In a world full of criminals everything is possible. Many years ago I saw a car with German numberplate on the front and a Belgium plate on the back.
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Don't think there was another plate underneath this one but yes, can def confirm that the one at the back was identical - I walked round the back of the vehicle wondering if there WOULD be any country code or dealer sticker etc.
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Not UK format as that wouldn't have 3 letters/space/3 digits/space/1 digit
3 letters/4 numbers is a UK format that you can get on the cheapest private plates, and some people like to do odd things with spacing on them for whatever personal reason, but I had a quick look on DVLA and yes it's not a UK number
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ABC 1234 format could be a Northern Irish plate. The font is wrong though.

Designed to be more random than a GB plate so they had to bribe someone to get info about sectarian ******s for their medieval stupidity.

Font and LHD makes me think Bulgarian. It's London though, so probably just some gangster taking the **** out of Komrade Khans many charges and taxes.

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Font and LHD makes me think Bulgarian
hmm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicl...y%20code%20for
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The font looks like that used in Baltic countries and the format looks like Estonia to me.
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ABC 1234 format could be a Northern Irish plate. The font is wrong though.

Designed to be more random than a GB plate so they had to bribe someone to get info about sectarian ******s for their medieval stupidity.

Font and LHD makes me think Bulgarian. It's London though, so probably just some gangster taking the **** out of Komrade Khans many charges and taxes.

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Neither the font, nor the format are Bulgarian. In BG on cars it's predominantly 2 letters/ 4 digits / 2 letters.
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The font looks like that used in Baltic countries and the format looks like Estonia to me.
Hmm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicl...reduced%20size.
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The font looks like that used in Baltic countries and the format looks like Estonia to me.
Not even remotely. Format is closer to Lithuania/Sweden, but they have three digits, not four. Estonia is three digits followed by three letters. Latvia is two letters followed by a dash and up to four digits with no leading zeroes.

Font is a bit similar to Finland but larger characters, and the Finnish format is three digits, not four.
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Hi all - thanks for giving this some serious consideration!
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Could be a dateless Northern Ireland plate, though maybe not with the LHD
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This one is getting close.
Found it on the swedish site garaget.org
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