Nevada Home Means Nevada Plate
2016–presentNevada · current · “Home Means Nevada”
The slogan is the title of the state song, written in 1932 by a Reno doctor's wife, Bertha Raffetto, for a Native Daughters of the Golden West picnic. The mountains along the foot are drawn as flat facets rather than a photograph, which dates the plate to the 2010s as clearly as any legend would. THE SILVER STATE, on Nevada plates for decades, was dropped from this design. 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 2016 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.
Half stamped, half printed
Run a thumb across this plate and only the serial answers. The registration is still pressed into the metal the old way, while the state name, the slogan and any artwork are printed flat onto the reflective sheeting around it. Most plates issued in America today are made like this: the part that must be legible at speed and survive a decade of weather is stamped, and the part that carries the state's personality is printed, because printing can do colour and detail that a press cannot.
Sources
Reference photograph of an issued plate (CC BY 4.0, CA81enjoyer). Issue date and both current serial formats, which run concurrently over the counter and by post (CC BY-SA).
- Issued
- Standard issue
- The plate you received by default when you registered a vehicle.
- Serial format
- 999·9A9
- Material
- Aluminium: stamped serial on screened reflective sheeting
- Source license
- CC BY 4.0
- Reference
- View original