Alabama God Bless America Plate
2013–presentAlabama · current · “God Bless America”
The other plate an Alabama driver may have, at no extra cost and simply by asking: a faded national flag behind a black serial, GOD BLESS AMERICA in navy italic along the foot, and a red heart where the beach plate puts a white one. It was reissued unchanged in January 2025. The state files it under distinctive rather than standard plates, which is a filing decision rather than a fact about availability, and the archive records it as standard because anyone can have it for the ordinary registration fee. The plate shown is a reconstruction carrying an invented serial, so no real registration is depicted.
Still on the road
This is a current issue, first seen in 2013 and still being handed out. Nothing about it is settled history: the serial sequence is still advancing, and the design will only stop where the state decides to replace it.
Printed, not stamped
This plate is smooth. The design is printed onto flat reflective sheeting rather than pressed into the metal. It is what makes photographic backgrounds and fine detail possible at all, and it is the reason a modern plate feels like a sign where an older one feels like a stamping.
Sources
Reference is the Department of Revenue's own scan of a physical sample plate. The same source files this plate as distinctive rather than standard (All rights reserved, cited not reproduced). Design history, the 2025 reissue and the serial format (CC BY-SA).
- Issued
- Standard issue
- The plate you received by default when you registered a vehicle.
- Serial format
- A9AA9A9
- Material
- Flat aluminium, thermal-printed on reflective sheeting
- Source license
- All rights reserved, cited not reproduced
- Reference
- View original