My license plates collection

I'm actively collecting license plates since 2013 after a Coast to Coast travel in the US. By that time I already had around a tenth of plates that I got as present from my parents' travel in the USA (Arizona 117 KTL, Kentucky 600 PSP and 485 LAD, Florida A00 QKA, Utah 308 WYX, ...) and a couple bought at a car show (Illinois 2763 T N and South Dakota W 2624). I also received a Panama and two Dominican plates from family's friends.

After my vacation in the US, where I bought nearly 20 plates, I started searching and buying plates on eBay and other auction sites in order to complete my 50+1 states run. To limit a bit my collection I decided to get only car embossed plates and avoid the plain printed versions. I got only a flat plate from Georgia because it has the same graphic of the car my friends and I drove during our 1-month-long C2C. Later I received as gift 3 flat plates which are currently anyway in the collection.

On 10^th May 2015 I bought a Maryland plate on eBay which was the last state missing in my collection. On 22^th May 2015 I've received the plate and my 50+1 state run is over.

Beside the 51-states run, I started a Wyoming's cowboy and a Centennial run.

Later I extended my collection to some non-USA plates with an Argentinian plate that I bought in Buenos Aires in the summer of 2014 and some European plates I bought on eBay. In October 2014 I was finally able to buy my first Italian plate. Finding my country's plates is not so easy because by law most of the plates (except really old ones) should be demolished with the car.

I would like to have a plate from each country in the world, but this goal would be nearly impossible to achieve (I believe).

Why license plates? Well, I'm a collector... I collected phonecards for many years, coins, banknotes, bottle caps and I have also my father's stamps collection. I have also a collection of over 700 Coca Cola cans and bottles. In recent years I started collecting flags, as a travel souvenir, and license plates. I have always being interested in cars as my father worked in the industry for like 30 years and when I was a child, like 3 or 4 years old (my parents said), I was able to recognize car models and province codes on Italian plates. I guess my interest in collecting license plate come from this background.

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