JHZR2
Staff member
I had one when I lived there. Went to the DMV and asked for a number below the threshold, and they had one. Yes, you need to order a new porcelain plate if you want one…. Or if you have one one the “old money” 1-4 digit plates…. The rest of the 5 digit plates are done for novelty and because it looks different/better in some cases. Looked neat on my E30 BMW and looks really slick on a black car.State of Delaware does not directly reissue the small black plates. They just allow the recipient of certain low number digits sets below a threshold to apply to a third party service to make state approved black plate with the allowed low numbers on them and with a valid registration sticker, be installed on a registered Delaware vehicle.
If a low digit is issued, the state still hands the owner a standard blue/gold plate and the owner can then either at the DMV itself or at home on a computer, apply for replacement plate in black. If you applied your registration sticker to the new blue standard plate while waiting on the reissued replacement black plate to come in, you still have pay for out of pocket to get a new duplicate registration sticker.
About the only people I see with the reissued small black license plates in Delaware are old money or people who want you to think they are native old money.