Live auction - fco_318710 - CAMEROON - TERRITORIES UNDER FRENCH MANDATE 2 Francs poids léger - Essai de frappe de 2 Francs Morlon - 8 grammes 1925 Paris
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| Estimate : | 600 € |
| Price : | 310 € |
| Maximum bid : | 310 € |
| End of the sale : | 15 June 2021 18:34:11 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : 2 Francs poids léger - Essai de frappe de 2 Francs Morlon - 8 grammes
Date: 1925
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : bronze-aluminium
Diameter : 27,24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,95 g.
Edge : striée
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Voile terne au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : RÉPUBLIQUE - FRANÇAISE /1925.
Obverse description : Marianne à gauche, portant le bonnet phrygien et couronnée de lauriers.
Reverse
Reverse legend : .TERRITOIRES . SOUS . MANDAT . DE . LA . FRANCE. / CAMEROUN / 2 - FR..
Reverse description : trois palmes dressées liées par un ruban.
Commentary
Le problème de cette frappe, apparemment standard et ne portant pas la mention essai, est son poids, beaucoup trop léger et similaire à celui de la 2 francs Morlon. Si l’on remarque cette correspondance avec la Morlon, qui sera émise quatre ans plus tard, et que l’on constate l’existence de frappes de poids réglés sur les Morlon pour des 1 franc et 50 centimes de ce modèle, il n’est guère douteux que nous sommes en face des essais de flan de la série Morlon.
Historical background
CAMEROON - TERRITORIES UNDER FRENCH MANDATE
(1919-1945)
The 1884 treaty, which delivered Cameroon to the Germans, was confirmed by the Congress of Berlin the following year. Gustave Nachtigal occupied the new colony. In 1911, in order to resolve the Moroccan crisis, France ceded part of the Congo to the Germans, which was attached to Cameroon. The territory had an area of 761,000 km2 and was populated by 2.5 million inhabitants in 1914, including 2,000 whites. At the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919), Cameroon, which had been occupied since 1916 by the Franco-British, became a mandate entrusted to the French. Cameroon is one of the first territories to join Free France on August 27, 1940. At the end of the war, the mandate is transformed into trusteeship and Cameroon obtains its internal autonomy in 1958 and its independence on January 1, 1960.
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