New York state issued new license plates yearly, with the year of issue embossed on the plate. From the New York license plate was approximately 5 x 14 inches. This size was used until when the state of New York adopted the Society of Automotive Engineers standard for license plates: 6 x 12 inches with 4 standard locations for screw holes. New York issued its first license plate with retro-reflective foil from 3M in , the color of the plate was reflective golden orange, or a deep reflective yellow.
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Early plates in this format were made of galvanized steel like previous Liberty plates, with a change to aluminum made later in the series. This plate is an early steel plate which also exhibits a strange mis-match in the die set. The "8" die on this plate does not match the other characters, coming from a slightly different, narrower set. The correct "8" for this set would be the rounder variety found on plate number 3SS above. This is a later period aluminum plate using the same A12 3BC format.
Some plates near the end of this series in the "Y" series were produced using digital flat-plate technology. These were apparently issued as a test batch in the Rochester area. This was a disturbing occurrence, as it marked the first appearance of flat general-issue passenger plates in the US.
The experiment was short-lived, however, and all standard passengers in New York have reverted to being embossed ever since. Most specialty plates and non-passenger types in New York are currently made as flat plates, however.
This ABC format was the last series used on the Liberty base, as the state began a general reissue to new seven-digit plates starting in January, Starting in January, , New York began issuing these new baseplates.
The plate features a graphic of Niagara Falls, a mountainline and the New York City skyline across the top and the slogan "The Empire State" at the bottom. Serial format for these plates is a seven-digit ABC format, with a state-shape divider added for the first time. The series started at number ACA
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