Mistaken contact sync to new phone

Hello, I accidentally synced ALL of my contacts (4500) from my computer to my new IPhone5 when I intended to only sync from my old IPhone 3(122). Now the old ones have disappeared from my phone, IPad. How do I restore the original contact list (122)? and sync to the new IPhone. I've deleted all contacts and apparently ICloud also deleted the original contacts from my IPad too!

iPhone: Transferring information from your current iPhone to a new iPhone

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