Which country issued the first vehicle registration plate?

then the U.S. figured that prisoners could make them

amazing the things you find out playing a game to pass the time

When I lived in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, we would receive new license plates in envelopes to be put on our cars at the start of a new year. One year I opened the package and there were 2 plates for my car, but they had 2 different numbers. Figured it was the prisoners’ joke. Had to go to the DMV and get new plates.