cenxiquipilli pesos (Chav1)

This black-line drawing of a frontal view of the simplex glyph or notation for the number cen xiquipilli (“8,000," or "one incense bag full”) refers to 8,000 pesos. The square bag has a handle at the top. On the front, in the middle, is what appears to be a loincloth design. The bag also has a border full of small white circles with a dark background. The coefficient is always cen, as here, rather than ce (one). Perhaps this is because people were used to thinking of the bag as entirely full, and cen- has that sense of "entire." Often the cen- becomes separated from the xiquipilli, and yet with numbers of other things, it can remain joined. An example is centzontli, one count of four hundred.