New Issuer

I just gained a new issuer. Does anyone have an idea which new issuer was created. 

Same here, in November if I remember.

I think it could be because some review of data… Still I'd like to know the history of issuer in my collection. But how?

And today I acquired a new country. Any ideas?

I think this is the new “country” that was added recently.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?e=congo_belge_rwanda_urundi_section&r=&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=

You should track your issuers 😉

Since 2018, I register my issuers regularly, not the countries because it doesn't mean anything anymore.

Export my collection, select only “issuers” 

then sort by name

So since May 2022, what has changed in my collection?

The belgian congo came back to life, it had disappeared in 2021, but I had already Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, and it stayed.
My Dutch Republic coin moved to Reckem, Lordship of, and that's a great initiative (at last) from the catalog manager, thank you  👍
A new issuer (probably a swap) from Hessen-Kassel, Electorate of
Palembang, Sultanate of, but I already had these, I don't know where they were listed ?
Pannonia, Usurpations of, ouh there that's sharp 😶‍🌫️
A new Spanish notgeld, I need to see that.
Utrecht, City of, probably a swap
And then that's all.

Back in 2018, a lot of issuers disappeared in my collection:
British Honduras, Ceylon, Congo Free State, France - Kingdom, French Oceania, yes that's what we call merges

Mutawakkilite Kingdom and Yemen Arab Republic were merged in North Yemen
Nauru, boo passed in exonumia 😒
New Hebrides, Portuguese Timor, Roman provinces (is the RPC included in the RIC now?), Tatarstan (hey guy this coin cost me an arm 🤕), Zaire (you should revolt Mobutu, they buried your diabolical work )

Today I lost two countries and one issuer. Whoever makes these changes should notify the community at some point.

The issuer “Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi” did not live very long. RIP. it was, however, a geographical unit different from the Belgian Congo. Now, issuers “Belgian Congo” and “Rwanda-Burundi” are included in the country "Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi", that's clever, hey guy you should follow and hit a little :)
But, whatever, your remark is interesting and I'm going to ask for a track log of changes of the issuers and additionally of the countries.

The country level issuer Low Countries, Feudal has been eliminated, and has been divided between sub-issuers 

Belgium - Feudal (new)

Netherlands - Feudal (new)

France - Feudal

If you had a coin of the Bishopric of Liege, which was the largest sub-issuer in Low Countries, Feudal, this might have affected your country count. 

These changes are sometimes (but not always) being discussed in the “Catalog” sections of the Forum.

It would be interesting to know how different collectors handle such changes. If you collect a coin per issuer and nothing else, do you add a coin to (or remove a coin from) your collection whenever a new issuer appears (or, correspondingly, is removed) in Numista?

I think everyone should collect with there own system, regardless what catalogs or websites say. Most of the countries I collect are by type only and I don't give a hoot if some variant collector has split sub-types into there own pages. 

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It would be interesting to know how different collectors handle such changes. If you collect a coin per issuer and nothing else, do you add a coin to (or remove a coin from) your collection whenever a new issuer appears (or, correspondingly, is removed) in Numista?

 I don't care of countries. Is there any definition of a “Numista country” ? 

A bunch of issuers gathered in a geographical unit ? For example the “duchy of Larraine” (the westernmost parts of the Holy Roman Empire) is part of the country “France” … well … not really, "Rome" is a country …

I keep track of issuers. Changes on issuers list are usually wise and historically interesting.

Then, that would request that you have some interest in history while collecting coins

My opinion is like Frenchlover's.  

My collection is organized around some places where the history or the place interests  me (by coincidence, Duchy of Lorraine is one of them 🙃 ) .  Or around a theme that interests me.

I don't use a scorecard, but I ca also understand that some collectors do, and that it can be annoying when the goalpost is moved because we change the catalog.