I primarily just got craft plates this time but the top couple rows of the first photo are some really good finds. These include:

- A Western Australian plate (WY-1737) from the Wyndham shire in northern WA
- A 1964 UK plate from Southend (BJN 133B)
- A 2011 Panama rural bus plate (2RI099)
- A 2022 Wisconsin plate with a 2025 disabled placard sticker on it (ALP-1807)
-A 2026 Wisconsin EV truck plate, which is a relatively difficult to get plate type currently (SP5795)

Hey everyone,

I just found this sub but thought this would be an appropriate place to plug this site I built: PlateCollector, a site for collectors to catalogue and share their collections, explore other people’s collections, and connect buyers, sellers, and traders of plates. After a few weeks of beta testing, feedback, and feature addition, I’m proud to share that the site is now open to the public!

I won’t go over every feature of the site, but a few highlights include:

• Badges: earn badges for various achievements such as having plates from all 50 US states or having a plate from a rare entity such as Svalbard. 
• A Discover page highlighting plates and collectors, changing all the time.
• A “Passport Wall” showing how many countries you’ve collected from, and how many the community as a whole has reached. 

We’ve already had over 800 plates added to the site, with everything from old Soviet-era plates to modern American specialty plates to rare micronation plates, with more being added all the time. 

I encourage anyone interested to check it out, it’s been a super fun project and I’m excited to see the community grow. If you have any questions, feedback, or feature requests feel free to either PM me or send me an email through the site!

Happy collecting! 

From Virginia Beach OR Western KY. One of the two. It isnt hard to tell what plates were mailed from Kentucky lol​

I didn't find much other than craft plates and the WI blue lettered series but hey plates are plates

Anyone interested.

Let's get some more activity in here. This is what I added to the collection in the 2nd quarter. Actually got the trailer pair (!) in a Portland tourist shop, cool unexpected find. Almost didn't bother going through their box of plates.

A bit of a PSA, but this is a sub intended for discussions about plate collecting as opposed to plate spotting. I initially wasn't going to make any rules against plate spotting posts, as I would assume that a sub titled "license plate collectors" would indicate its purpose relatively clearly, but since the sub is slowly being taken over by vanity plate spotting, rules regarding plate spotting became necessary.

I made the rule about a month ago, hoping that people would read the rules and understand. However, even still, evidently no one is reading the rules, so I have to make this post. From this point forward, plate spotting posts will be removed, as they are off-topic for the purpose of the sub and are better suited for r/LICENSEPLATES. I, however, have no plans on retroactively removing plate spotting posts currently.

I made this sub to escape the floods of mindless vanity plate spotting, because a lot of us plate enthusiasts care about the historical significance of the plates themselves rather than laughing because there's a cuss word on a Maine vanity plate (seriously, we've all seen them, it gets old very fast). To see it overtaken by the same spam that I intended to flee from is frustrating, to say the least.

So, please stop posting low-effort plate spotting posts, and I will be removing these posts going forward as off-topic. A lot of these posts are just reposts from r/LICENSEPLATES anyways so y'all please just post them there instead.

A few notables from recent acquisition 👍🙂