Bentian. Historiographic analysis concerning a basque mint

Abstract

In this paper we carrie out an analysis about the historiography from 17th century to the present time whose attention is focused on the coins issued by the bentian mint. The peculiarity of these coins and the subsequent lack of knowledge on its coinage has provoqued that research hasn´t proven an excessive interest until the first works of compilation or corpora which were published during the second half of 19th century and the first decades of 20th century. In spite of this fact, and due to the remarkable interest on the study of the basconian mints in general, bentian continues to be one of the mint which, until the present day, shows a great lack of information.