Benin/Dahomey

Date1980, 02 IV
Value100 F
Catalog no.Mi 202   Sc 452   SG --   Y&T 472
TopicCopernicus, Nicolas
OccasionThe 50th Anniversary of the discovery of planet Pluto
DescriptionSeries of two stamps on 70F a portrait of Johannes Kepler, on 100F the portrait of Nicolas Copernicus.
This stamp shows Copernicus and the solar system. Copernicus and Kepler both did important discoveries aout the solar systen and the way it functions. In 1930 the American astronomer Clyde Tombough discovered Pluto.