Issue date may refer to:
- Cover date of a periodical publication
- A supplementary number used on debit cards due to the main card account number being tied to underlying bank account number – see issue number
- The date on which a financial instrument, particularly a security is (physically) issued by the issuer. Also known as date of issue. See also start date/effective date, which is when an instrument comes into effect.
Famous quotes containing the words issue and/or date:
“We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere: they date from it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)