caxtolli pesos (Chav1)
This notation represents the number 15 and refers to pesos. It is part of a count of tributes presented by the pueblo of Huexotzinco (today, Huejotzingo). The fifteen comprises a crescent shape (10) plus a red circle (5), something of a mathematical equation. The use of red seems to relate to the fact that this was a final total. Earlier counts are in black.
Stephanie Wood
Interestingly, the glyph for "bowl-lipped" shows a crescent much like this, and in that glyph the bowl is a caxitl. So, the crescent-shaped bowl seems to have been chosen in Huexotzinco for the phonetic value "cax-" from caxitl, providing the starting sound for caxtolli.
Stephanie Wood
castolli.
caxtolli
Stephanie Wood
1578
monedas, matemáticas, números, dinero, quince, fifteen
caxtol(li), fifteen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caxtolli
peso, a peso, a unit of money, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/peso
cax(itl), bowl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caxitl-0
The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=1
The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco) is held by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. It is published online by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”