After creating icloud account all my contacts gone

Hi, I just created to my mom icloud account, after i did that it asked me if i want to merge into icluod account and i did "yes", after the phone synced all contacts are gone !!!
I logged into my moms Icloud account at "icloud.com" but they are not there ! what should i do now? there were around 300 contacts which are very important for my mom!
also, they weren't backed up at-all.
PLEASE HELP !!!

I ended up deleting the entire ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder and after this it downloaded the contacts from iCloud and has worked fine since.

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