Lost a Country

I lost a country today. Any idea as to which country was deleted from the country list.

Still 414 countries in the list. Maybe a coin got moved from one county to another country.

Were East Timor and Timor-Leste both counted as separate countries prior to the changes?

I lost a country also.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces17657.html Was moved from India( Ancient) to Indian states and kingdoms. Maybe you experienced the same thing.

Same for me

Απόσπασμα: "eug"​I lost a country also.
​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces17657.html Was moved from India( Ancient) to Indian states and kingdoms. Maybe you experienced the same thing.

​This just brought me down from 311 to 310 hopefully they don't keep chipping away at my countries!

I just hope when this restructure of the country list is done, this losing of countries will stop.

Απόσπασμα: "Eerovisser"​I just hope when this restructure of the country list is done, this losing of countries will stop.

​Why can't we ever get new countries instead of always loosing them?

Do not worry. This is because we needed to move last remnants (India ancient and Nepal Ancient) to Ancient coins section. Since those countries had very mixed entries, we needed to make some meaningful splits. Chomp-master will know more, as he led the talks on those ancient countries with their respective referees.

As to adding countries. Many new countries are scheduled to be added - or rather became counted as such due to restructure. There are already two prematurely born ones - Indo-Parthian Kingdom and Indo-Sasanid Kingdom.

We should held discussions on creating the new ones on thursday.

Απόσπασμα: "Jarcek"​Do not worry. This is because we needed to move last remnants (India ancient and Nepal Ancient) to Ancient coins section. Since those countries had very mixed entries, we needed to make some meaningful splits. Chomp-master will know more, as he led the talks on those ancient countries with their respective referees.
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​As to adding countries. Many new countries are scheduled to be added - or rather became counted as such due to restructure. There are already two prematurely born ones - Indo-Parthian Kingdom and Indo-Sasanid Kingdom.
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​We should held discussions on creating the new ones on thursday.

​so where is the split between India ancient and states/kingdoms?

I did not led the talks on this, but it seems to me that year 500 AD is somehow the boundary between the two.

Or it could be something else, maybe some event in time.

I effectively had talks with sujit, the referee of most Indian listings. I proposed him either to create a new listing or to merge to another existing listing to allow a good split between Antique coins and Medieval coins. I also decided to let him decide which limit he would take for each Indian ancient kingdom to remain in Antiques or moved elsewhere.

He finally decided to merge some old kingdoms from "India (ancient)" to "Indian states", since then renamed "Indian states and kingdoms" as he wished by the way. Initially he wanted to choose his limit at 650 AD, but I suggested him a more floating limit as this was not sure that all states would have moved from an Antique system to a Medieval one. For example, the limit between Rome and Byzantium is the Anastasius reform, a few decades after the fall of Rome ; Sassanid Persia disappeared after the Islamic conquests, as well as christianized Aksum stopped minting coins after losing their trade routes with Byzantines against the same conquerors ; and the Chinese Empire was split by the end of the Ban Liang and Wu Zhu coinage and the introduction of the new Kai Yuan cash coinage, equivalent to the former Wu Zhu denominations.

This explains your loss of one country, as you probably owned at least one coin from Indian states and your coins from Ancient India merged with these states.

Is Austria going to stay the way it is? I am reorganizing my collection into 2x2 holders from albums. So would be nice to do it once inst as of changing it again a little later.

I'm sorry but Austria is not part of the countries we're rearranging yet as we didn't decide yet to implement something concerning Medieval and more modern coinages, and Habsburg Austria is the main concerned country.