Live auction - fco_923755 - CAMEROON - TERRITORIES UNDER FRENCH MANDATE 50 Centimes léger - Essai de frappe de 50 cts Morlon - 2 grammes 1926 Paris
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
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| End of the sale : | 10 February 2026 18:55:27 |
Type : 50 Centimes léger - Essai de frappe de 50 cts Morlon - 2 grammes
Date: 1926
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : bronze-aluminium
Diameter : 18,12 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,98 g.
Edge : striée
Rarity : R3
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 / 50 - CMES (SOULIGNÉ).
Reverse description : trois palmes dressées liées par un ruban.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire pèse 2 grammes, comme la 50 centimes Morlon qui sera émise dès 1931, et nous conduit à penser que les essais de frappe et de flans du type Morlon furent faits en utilisant les coins de Patey pour le Cameroun et le Togo.
This example weighs 2 grams, like the 50 centimes Morlon which was issued from 1931, and leads us to believe that the Morlon type coinage and blank tests were carried out using Patey dies for Cameroon and Togo.
This example weighs 2 grams, like the 50 centimes Morlon which was issued from 1931, and leads us to believe that the Morlon type coinage and blank tests were carried out using Patey dies for Cameroon and Togo.
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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