Cameroon coins division [solved]

Hello everyone, I have seen some things of the division by periods of the Cameroon coins that I do not understand: 1st. Cameroon is divided into 2 issuers: French Cameroon and Cameroon. In theory, French Cameroon goes up to 1960, so why are the 1948 and 1958 coins under the issuer of Cameroon and not of French Cameroon? 2nd. When I look at Cameroon on the map of my coins, I don't get French Cameroon. Can someone explain to me why of these two things? Thank you very much and good holidays to all!

I think I would place the 1948 and 1958 coins under French Cameroon though they are inscribed as Cameroun French Equatorial Africa. This was a time of United Nations Mandate and Cameroon used same currency as French Equatorial Africa but was not part of that colony officially but a territory in the French Union to 1957 when it became a state and asked the UN to end the mandate, which France supported doing. It was In 1960 Cameroon became independent and was joined by British Cameroons in 1961. So one could make the case that name was French Cameroon for coins to 1943, Territory or State of Cameroon 1948 and 1958, and Republic of Cameroon since 1960 (United Republic after 1972, Republic again after 1984).

I'm not sure why French Cameroon does not appear when hovering over Cameroon on the map.

Will

I've never understood why the coins of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon are listed under Cameroon rather than French Equatorial Africa. I know the change occured some years ago in SCWC but surely we should follow what's done in French West Africa? There, the coins that have the addition of Togo are listed under French West Africa with an explanatory note.
I would agree that the 1948 Cameroon coins should go under French Cameroon.

Yes, I agree with you, and another question is why is French Cameroon a diferent issuer under Cameroon and there is not a French Algeria or French Madagascar, for example, under the respective countries as a diferent issuers? Why this diference with Cameroon?

Quote: "oynbcn"​Yes, I agree with you, and another question is why is French Cameroon a diferent issuer under Cameroon and there is not a French Algeria or French Madagascar, for example, under the respective countries as a diferent issuers? Why this diference with Cameroon?

​I'm not saying we should keep the split but I think the reason is that modern Cameroon is made up of French Cameroon plus part of British Cameroon.

I'm sure the split is because British Cameroons joined ex-French Cameroon and Nigeria. This was necessitated by Nigerian independence (British Cameroons was not part of Nigeria but was administered together with Nigeria), so the northern half of British Cameroons joined Nigeria and the southern half joined Cameroon.

Will

Exactly, we divide issuers when there is a geographical change. We are in a middle of finalizing a guideline for this.

Also, French Cameroon should show up on the map already.

I still have a question about this topic that has not been explained and I don't know if it is an error or there is a reasonable reason to explain it: if there is an issuer called French Cameroon and French Cameroon goes up to 1960, why are the 1948 and 1958 coins under the issuer of Cameroon and not of French Cameroon?

 

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?e=cameroun&r=1948&ct=coin&im1=&im2=&tb=y&tc=y&tn=y&tp=y&tt=y&cat=y&ru=&ca=3&no=&v=&i=&b=&d=&u=&a=&dg=&m=&f=&t=&w=&mt=&g=&se=&c=&wi=&sw=

 

Thanks for your answer, Oscar

I fixed by attaching new ruling periods in French Cameroons.

I see Central African States was merged with Equatorial African States, so it means the coins always circulated in the same territory and was just a “name change”?