VARIATIONS
1913: Dash formats 00 -, 000 -, 0000-, 00000
1914: Dash formats -000-, 0000-, 00000
1915: Dash formats 00---, 000--, 0000-, 00000
1918: Type 1 - Round slots, olive back 305 - 29712 (29,408 P)
Type 2 - Square slots, olive back 47269 - 62105 (14,837 P)
Type 3 - Square slots, beige back 64719 - 77934 (13,216 P)
1919: Type 1 - No border, 6" width 222 - 15890 (15,669 P)
Type 2 - Painted border, 6" width 17486 - 99999 (82,514 P)
Type 3 - 1920 dies, 5" width 100000 - 109217 (9,218 P)
1920: Type 1 - Thin legends, heavy
steel, white back 31665 - 35715 (4,051 P)
Type 2 - As Type 1,
but brown back 40644 - 119480 (78,837 P)
Type 3 - Wide legends, light
steel, brown back 134727 -
1939: #1B2152 has far (7 7/8") holes under legends; #1B1300 and
all others have close (7 1/8") holes aside from legends.
1945-47: Single plate issued for rear, matching-number windshield
sticker issued for front. (Verify 1946)
1948: Late issues plain aluminum, not steel or waffle aluminum.
Waffle aluminum 33-2962, 47-3363.
1949: All are waffle aluminum.
#10-3288 has "SOUTH DAKOTA 1949", not "1949 SOUTH DAKOTA".
1950: Steel - all counties, including 1-G777, 6-6208, 6-7890
Waffle aluminum - late issues only 1-J977, 6-7104,
10-U21 - 10-U79*, 41-4W8, 47-W14 (63 P)
1951: Steel - all counties, including 1-E731, 41-5N9, 51-9AU
Waffle aluminum - late issues only 1-K086 - 1-K487, 8-3006,
24-W88, 39-2E8, 41-9V6 - 41-0X7, 50-P40, 51-1FA - 51-5JE,
64-737* (1,181 P)
1957-59: Description of Types
1957 Type 1 - Dated "57", beaded paint, galvanized steel
1958 Type 2 - Undated, beaded paint, galvanized steel
1959 Type 3 - Undated, beaded paint, plain steel
1959 Type 4 - Undated, Scotchlite, plain steel (some
uncoated)
1959 Type 5 - Undated, Scotchlite, galvanized steel
1960: Late issues white back, not unpainted galvanized steel.
1973: 3-28153 - 3-28824* have "73 S.DAK", 3-26251 and all
others have "S.DAK 73".
1974: Type 1 - Graphic 2-40674, 2-44685 - 45081, 4-18098, 5-20272,
9-13491, 15-2727, 17-2051, 29-4456, 36-2559, 55-4676,
all other counties.
Type 2 - Late issues non-graphic, 1970 design 2-43485,
4-20399, 5-20591 - 20646, 9-17802, 15-4913, 17-5516,
29-5773 - 5780, 36-7674 - 7691, 43-6448,
55-6187 - 6219, 65-2821, 66-1405 - 1422 (140 P).
1975: Late issues aluminum, not steel (2-45337).
1976-80: Late issues (1980) galvanized steel, not aluminum.
2000-05: Description of Types
Type 1 - Steel, embossed, old spacing (44AA 00 seen
6/27/01)
Type 2 - Steel, embossed, new spacing (44A A00)
Type 3 - Steel, flat, thin font (2/11/04 "11-04")
(bold or non-bold stroke, close or wide spacing)
Type 4 - Alum., flat, thin font (short or tall figures)
Type 5 - Alum., flat, wide font (1/5/05)
2017: Type 1 - "US" hologram, 4-color background, fuzzier image,
red included in Mt. Rushmore graphic 6B0 381
Type 2 - "SD" hologram, pantone background, sharper image,
no red in Mt. Rushmore graphic 6B1 851
STICKER VARIATIONS
1993: Type 1 - White/Light Blue 30058070 (01)
Type 2 - White/Blue, different font 30791918 (09)
1999: Type 1 - Black/Yellow & White, random serial
Type 2 - Black/Yellow, different design, computer printed,
serial matching plate number
2000: Black/Red style reported in addition to White/Red.
