Pennsylvania Let Freedom Ring Plate
2025–presentPennsylvania · current · “Let Freedom Ring”
Cream rather than white, with the Liberty Bell engraved faintly behind the serial and PENNSYLVANIA arched over it in dark red. It replaced the plate that had carried visitPA.com along its foot for eight years, retiring a web address in favour of a phrase from the bell's own inscription. The state also runs a fee-bearing special-fund plate with the same slogan, which is a different object entirely. 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 2025 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, the only square-on photograph of this design found. The state publishes a rendering with a placeholder serial (All rights reserved, cited not reproduced). Issue date and serial format (CC BY-SA).
- Issued
- Standard issue
- The plate you received by default when you registered a vehicle.
- Serial format
- AAA9999
- Material
- Aluminium: stamped serial on screened reflective sheeting
- Source license
- All rights reserved, cited not reproduced
- Reference
- View original