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Background information about Benin Benin

Benin was known as Dahomey prior to November, 1975.


Issue Date / Set Description Item Description
9 July 1976 - Telephone Centennial Bell / Satellite / Telephone
18 October 1976 - Apollo 14 Insignia / Liftoff
Astronauts On Moon
12 November 1977 - Viking Missions To Mars Lander On Mars
Sir Isaac Newton
Soyuz 1
Sputnik 2
17 May 1978 - Decennial World Telecommunications Day ITU Insignia
17 May 1979 - 11th World Telecommunications Day Satellite / Tower / ITU Insignia
8 June 1979 - PHILEXAFRIQUE II Mask / Bird
Canoe / Satellite / UPU Insignia
2 April 1980 - Semicentennial of the Discovery of Pluto Galileo Galilei / Astrolabe
Nicholas Copernicus / Solar System
17 May 1980 - World Telecommunications Day ITU Insignia / Telephone
Man Using Telephone
15 June 1980 - Decennial of Lunokhod 1 Lunokhod 1 90fr
Lunokhod 1 210fr
20 December 1980 - Johannes Kepler Kepler
Kepler / Satellites
30 May 1981 - Vicennial of Manned Space Flight Yuri Gagarin / Soviet Space Station
30 May 1981 - World Telecommunications Day ITU Insignia
20 November 1981 - West African Economic Community Map of West Africa / Satellite Dish
21 February 1982 - Vicennial of Friendship 7 Glenn / Liftoff
26 September 1982 - ITU Plenipotentiaries Conference Satellite / Map
circa November 1982 - Surcharges #256
#C275
circa 1983 - Surcharges #C290
17 May 1983 - World Communications Year WCY Insignia
27 August 1983 - Riccione ‘83 WCY Insignia
circa November 1983 - Surcharges #C270
#C273
#C261
#C280
#C258
#C281
#C277
#C298
#C266
#C272
29 June 1984 - Abomey Calavi Earth Station Satellite Dish
circa September 1984 - Surcharged Items Yuri Gagarin / Soviet Space Station 40fr (#504)
circa August 1985 - Surcharges Dahomey #C266
Dahomey #C142
Dahomey #C164
Dahomey #C173
Dahomey #C186
Dahomey #C163
Dahomey #C153
Dahomey #C143
Dahomey #C237
Dahomey #C236
30 May 1986 - Halley’s Comet Sir Edmund Halley / Comet / Probe
circa 1988 - Surcharges Dahomey #C196
Dahomey #C181
Dahomey #C208
circa 1988 - Surcharges Dahomey #C144
Dahomey #C185
Dahomey #C207
Dahomey #C191
Dahomey #C195
Dahomey #C158
Dahomey #C140
Dahomey #C188
Dahomey #C177
Dahomey #C262
Dahomey #C166
circa 1990 - Surcharges #354
#499
#349
#C278
1 January 1990 - Benin Posts & Telecommunications Centennial Satellite Dish
23 January 1990 - Vicennial of Apollo 11 Rocket Launch / Footprint On Moon
1 December 1990 - Galileo Probe To Jupiter Probe
circa 1991 - Riccione 91 (Galileo Probe To Jupiter overprinted) #678
circa 1993 - Surcharges Dahomey #C149
Dahomey #C145
Dahomey #C150
#C257
Dahomey #C241
#C255
Dahomey #C182
Dahomey #C198
Dahomey #C189
#C264
circa 1994 - Surcharges Dahomey #C155
#C256
#C255
Dahomey #C101
Dahomey #C151
Dahomey #C14
Dahomey #C144
Dahomey #C222
Dahomey #C110
Dahomey #C128
#C250
Dahomey #C242
Dahomey #C153
Dahomey #C197
Dahomey #C31
Dahomey #C34
Dahomey #C234
#C254
#C261
circa 1994 - Surcharges Dahomey #C256
circa 1995 - Surcharge #Dahomey 291
circa 1996 - Surcharges Dahomey #C208
Dahomey #C88
Dahomey #C115
Dahomey #C207
Dahomey #C208
Dahomey #C85
Dahomey #C74
Dahomey #C109
Dahomey #C120
Dahomey #C136
Dahomey #C142
Dahomey #C94
Dahomey #C106
Dahomey #C204
Dahomey #C124
Dahomey #C61
Dahomey #C113
Dahomey #C157
#C260
Dahomey #C111
Dahomey #C130
Dahomey #C125
#C263
Dahomey #C135
Dahomey #C143
Dahomey #C150
Dahomey #C205
circa 1996 - Surcharges #C265
#C258
#C292
circa 1996 - Surcharges #C290
#C257
Dahomey #C206
circa 1996 - Surcharges #449
#521
#538
#569
#381
#384
#636
#546
#567
circa 1996 - Surcharge #616
circa 1996 - Surcharges Dahomey #235
#545
22 August 1999 - China 1999 Exhibition sheet of 8
Medieval Rockets
Jiuquan Launch Center
DFH-3 Satellite
Rocket Launch
Long March Rocket
Tracking Ship
Satellite Dish
Stamped Covers