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Montana License Plates

Montana issues plates in pairs, front plate display required. Renewal date stickers still being issued in 2026.

In May 2025, Montana changed the serials from the 1-23456A and 12-3456A formats to the 1-AB2345 and 12-AB345 formats. Counties are exhausting their old format inventory before issuing the new format.

Stickers

2025 Orange

2026 Mustard

2027 Aqua Green

Montana allows drivers to obtain new plates on several previous base designs. Those designs include the 1991, 2000, and 2006 standard issues, as well as the 1989 Centennial. Numbering on the standard bases will conform to the current 2010 issue while numbering on the 1989 Centennial will conform the the ABC123 format currently in use for Specials.

Motorcycle plates changed from county coded to the generic ABC123 format.

Standard Passenger Plates

Non-passenger Plates

Specialty Plates

Optional Issues new

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Johnathan Baker - Jun 5 ’26

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Peter Cohen advised that all Montana special issues are sequentially numbered at the time of manufacture, so there is no pattern for a certain block of letters/numbers conforming to any given type. Lewis & Clark plates were the first of the optional issues and numbering began at AAA-001. Lewis & Clark plates are being used on some state-operated vehicles, such as Highway Patrol with the MHP prefix, and Commercial Motor Vehicle Inspector with the MVI prefix. John Northup reports MHP plates are now being made on the Montana Meth Project specialty design.

Montana switched from the 3M font to the Arizona font in August 2016. There was some flipping in between the late BT-/early BU- series between these fonts.

3M font high: BUB017

AZ font low: BTS709