Dahomey was an African kingdom (located in the area of the present-day country of Benin) which lasted from about 1600 until 1894, when the last chief Behanzin was defeated by the French and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire.
Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 1600s and became a regional power in the 1700s by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.
The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor, significant international trade with European powers, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military.
Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, a curious all-female military unit known as the Dahomey Amazons, and elaborate superstitious practices of Vodun with the large festival of the Annual Customs of Dahomey.
Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name
1966.01
13.06.1966
Birds
50f
9
African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
100f
144
Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus
500f
216
Emerald Starling Lamprotornis iris
1967.01
20.01.1967
Birds
200f
86
Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
250f
72
African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
1969.01
15.11.1969
Surcharge on 1966.01
10f
9
African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
1972.01
28.02.1972
Winter olympic games, Sapporo, Japan
2v set
150f
47
Red-crowned Crane Grus japonensis
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