Vermont Green Mountain State Plate
1990–presentVermont · current · “Green Mountain State”
Green on green, with a white sugar maple leaf at the top and the serial sitting in a raised white-rimmed panel. Vermont takes its name from the French for green mountain, and the plate has been this colour since 1985. Since November 2023 no renewal stickers are issued at all, so a Vermont plate now wears nothing but its own 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 1990 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 from a collector listing. Written sources describe the characters as debossed; the photograph shows them raised (All rights reserved, cited not reproduced). Issue date, serial format and the end of renewal stickers in 2023 (CC BY-SA).
- Issued
- Standard issue
- The plate you received by default when you registered a vehicle.
- Serial format
- AAA 999
- Material
- Aluminium: stamped serial on screened reflective sheeting
- Source license
- All rights reserved, cited not reproduced
- Reference
- View original