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. Often the "cen" is separated off from the xiquipilli, but typically it is joined together with other numbers.
Stephanie Wood
Our Online Nahuatl Dictionary refers to a number of xiquipilli examples where the contents were incense (copalli) or cacao (cacahuatl). The number 8,000, expressed as a xiquipilli, could also refer to pesos and to years. Goods counted by 8,000 were often tribute payments.
Stephanie Wood
cē xiquipilli
cen xiquipilli
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1578
Stephanie Wood
coins, monedas, money, dinero, pesos, ocho mil, xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl
cen, entirely, totally, altogether, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cen
xiquipil(li), a special sack or bag for cacao beans or incense; or, the number 8,000, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xiquipilli
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.”