Sorry if this is a repeat topic but I could not find it discussed previously.
Since Alderney is a part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey why is Alderney not listed as a sub-section of Guernsey in the Country and territory list? I understand keeping Guernsey and Jersey separate from the United Kingdom as crown dependencies but since Alderney is politically and territorially within Guernsey and uses Guernsey currency for the most part (Alderney coins are all non-circulating) what is the justification for giving Alderney a listing of its own? I just added my first Alderney coin to my collection and when I clicked on Alderney in the Country and territory list, I got no result. It seems the default search for Type of coin was set to "Multiple (2)" with "Common coin" and "Circulating commemorative coin" being ticked in the drop-down menu. Once I ticked "all" and did a search, I was able to see the Alderney coins.
The separate emirates of the United Arab Emirates are sub-sections of the country United Arab Emirates even though the coins of the separate emirates were issued prior to the formation of the united country and were in riyals instead of dirhams. Wouldn't the individual emirates have more justification for separate country listings than Alderney has?
If issuers past or present are currently politically and/or territorially part of a larger issuing entity it has become Numista policy to list the smaller issuer as a sub-section of the larger entity ( see Denmark, France, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom for examples--only the parent entry will be considered a country issuer). Krause policy has been to consider all issuers to be worthy of independent listing. The only inconsistency in Numista is the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is made up of the Netherlands in Europe (which politically includes the Caribbean Netherlands, known in Numista as the BES Islands), Aruba (part of the Netherlands Antilles to 1986), Curacao (formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, which dissolved as a political entity in 2010), and Sint Maarten (part of the Netherlands Antilles to 2010). While the Netherlands has 4 constituent countries, it has 4 official currencies: euro (Netherlands Europe except US dollar [BES Islands]), florin (Aruba), guilder (Curacao and Sint Maarten). I'm not sure if it is because of this that the Dutch constituent countries are not grouped together in one country in Numista or because the Netherlands Antilles guilder continues to be used in Curacao and Sint Maarten though they were to create a new Caribbean guilder but are also considering using the euro or US dollar.
