v30_1050 - CAMEROON - TERRITORIES UNDER FRENCH MANDATE 1 franc léger - Essai de frappe de 1 franc Morlon - 4 grammes 1926 Paris
MONNAIES 30 (2007)
Starting price : 400.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 1 030.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 562.00 €
Starting price : 400.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 1 030.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 562.00 €
Type : 1 franc léger - Essai de frappe de 1 franc Morlon - 4 grammes
Date: 1926
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : bronze-aluminium
Diameter : 23,18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,00 g.
Edge : striée
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Champs brillants, reliefs mats, d’infimes traces de manipulation
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : RÉPUBLIQUE - FRANÇAISE / 1926.
Obverse description : Marianne à gauche, portant le bonnet phrygien et couronnée de lauriers.
Reverse
Reverse legend : .TERRITOIRES . SOUS . MANDAT . DE . LA . FRANCE. / CAMEROUN / 1 - FR..
Reverse description : trois palmes dressées liées par un ruban.
Commentary
La seule explication plausible, car il faut noter une large différence de poids, serait de considérer cette frappe, comme celle des 25 centimes Patey 1907,comme des essais de frappe dédiés à un tout autre modèle.
Lequel ? Du bronze aluminium, 4 grammes, diamètre 23 mm, l’année 1926, tout indique un essai de frappe d’une 1 franc Morlon.
The only plausible explanation, since there is a significant difference in weight, would be to consider this strike, like that of the 25 centimes Patey 1907, as a test strike dedicated to a completely different model. Which one? Aluminum bronze, 4 grams, diameter 23 mm, year 1926, everything indicates a test strike of a 1 franc Morlon
Lequel ? Du bronze aluminium, 4 grammes, diamètre 23 mm, l’année 1926, tout indique un essai de frappe d’une 1 franc Morlon.
The only plausible explanation, since there is a significant difference in weight, would be to consider this strike, like that of the 25 centimes Patey 1907, as a test strike dedicated to a completely different model. Which one? Aluminum bronze, 4 grams, diameter 23 mm, year 1926, everything indicates a test strike of a 1 franc 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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