Newbie: Iso Info On 1999 Quarter & 1964 Nickel 0

[Fox72]

Newbie: Iso Info On→1999 Quarter & 1964 Nickel

First I would like to thank anyone who takes time out to give me any information on the two coins I found. Secondly I am totally oblivious when it comes to any type of coin history, information, or value. I have never dabbled in this area or interest. I don't even know what made me look at them. I bought this car recently & was cleaning it out and these two coins looked pretty old and something just made me look at them so I googled them for whatever reason. And soon learned that... Hey maybe they're worth something but then again maybe they're not but like I said I know nothing about this area of expertise. I know there's a lot of things to consider before something is worth any type of value so my question is: are these two coins worth anything or can I go ahead & spend them at Thorntons on a polar Pop LOL.

Thank you for your time.

[Greenstang]

Welcome to the Forum Fox72

I would say they were spenders. I don't see anything that would give them any value. Was there a reason you thought they may be worth more?

[Conder101]

It's kind of down heartening when someone describes a 20 year old coins as  "pretty old".

 

Get the Polar Pop.  (Although myself I am partial to the Frozen cokes.  But I don't know if Thortons has those.)

[Rummy13]

3 hours ago, Conder101 said:

It's kind of down heartening when someone describes a 20 year old coins as  "pretty old".

 

Get the Polar Pop.  (Although myself I am partial to the Frozen cokes.  But I don't know if Thortons has those.)

What would be considered modern coins?  I have been calling  everything from 1965 forward modern.  

[Conder101]

What do I consider Modern coinage?  Anything after 1836 when they started using full hubs and steam presses.  Before that the dies were a lot more hand made and they were struck on screw pressed using muscle power.  After that they are buttons.

[Rummy13]

1 hour ago, Conder101 said:

What do I consider Modern coinage?  Anything after 1836 when they started using full hubs and steam presses.  Before that the dies were a lot more hand made and they were struck on screw pressed using muscle power.  After that they are buttons.

OK, I'm very much learning and see the term used and was not sure.  Thank you I love learning and hope the ?s I ask don't sound to stupid.

[Just Bob]

What does the "Iso" in the title mean?

[Crawtomatic]

43 minutes ago, Just Bob said:

"Iso"

In Search Of

[Just Bob]

1 hour ago, CRAWTOMATIC said:

In Search Of

Thanks.

[Speaks]

ok

Edited January 7, 2020 by Speaks
Irrelevant

[VKurtB]

See? Everybody doesn't know something. A lot of people here don't know coins, and I don't know, and care about even LESS, Internet shorthand acronyms. Here's a great one: I consider the use of them to be, wait for it … rude.

Edited January 7, 2020 by VKurtB

[Conder101]

Note I said that is what I call modern coinage (I collect the early stuff).  Other people define it differently.  Most people use 1964 as the cut off date.  Circulating silver 1964 and earlier, clad with little intrinsic value after that date.  For some people it isn't just one date, it varies by series and typically is when the series changed form an allegorical representasion of Liberty, to show an actual person, so cents in 1909, nickels in 1938, dimes in 1946 etc.  Commemoratives and gold coins have clear break points because they stopped making them for a long time and then started again.  Due to abuses the commemorative haves ended in 1954 and no more commemoratives were made until 1982  This give an obvious classic/modern break.  Likewise on gold coins they stopped in 1933 and no more were made until 1986.  Once again obvious classic/modern.

There are some who push the start date of moderns back even further to the mid 1500's when coins first started being made with machines (drop presses, screw presses roller presses etc.)  before then all the steps were carried out by hand or muscle power.

Edited January 8, 2020 by Conder101

[Revenant]

1964 seems like a good and logical cut-off for the US but not so much any world coinage. I had thought NGC put the cut-off between modern and classic at 1955 for the purposes of classification and awards. I can't remember where I saw that anymore though.

[VKurtB]

8 minutes ago, Revenant said:

1964 seems like a good and logical cut-off for the US but not so much any world coinage. I had thought NGC put the cut-off between modern and classic at 1955 for the purposes of classification and awards. I can't remember where I saw that anymore though.

Their certification/grading form perhaps?