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Best Antique Montana license plates: Those early years of old Montana license plates with the notched "N" in "MONT" are interesting, and the unusual red-on-grey 1917 is the best. This due to the color scheme and the antique license plate dishpan design. Overall best, and most emblematic of all antique Montana license plates is unquestionable the 1938: This wasn't the first year of the (state mandated!) state map outline, but the black on orange is one of the more striking examples of that series. What is the second thing about old Montana license plates that everyone knows? It is the embossed (but not painted) "Prison Made" slogan; and, in the case of the 1938 Montana license plate, it DOES happen to be the first year that feature is used. Add in the only usage in that era of a buffalo head graphic, and you've got the ideal textbook old Montana license plate.

Best of the "Not-so- Old Montana license plates: Taking "pre-war" Montana plates as "not so old", there are two during-the-war Montana license plates which catch your eye in a run tacked to the wall: The first is the '42 with the '43 tab. What an ingenious way of saving metal, while working the tab into the graphic design of the license plate. The second remarkable not so old Montana license plate is the '44 fiber, which normally would be common enough as far as fibers go: but there are no state maps on these. What you must love about them as well, is that so many of them bear the legible "Illinois 1943" designation clearly on the reverse. Common legend holds that that Illinois' first foray into fibers resulted in a soybean composite found to be tasty to the livestock, which nibbled them off the cars. Lesser known is the rumor that Illinois palmed off their first batch of tags to Montana -- while they developed a bad tasting recipe for the 1944 Illinois license plates.

Toughest/Most Rare Montana plates: Taking the lead from Illinois again, if we can assume that the perforated-front pairs of plates from 1913 and 1914 (once thought to be prestates), are NOT actually pre states, then those are the rarest. Other than that, the 1915 old Nontana license plate "traditional" first issue is a tough plate indeed.

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