chicuacen tomin (Osu14v)

This painted simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph stands for six tomines (a loanword from Spanish, each unit being an eighth of a peso, which was also called a real) part of a large payment of over 200 pesos that the viceroy ordered the Nahuas be paid for their work in gathering and presenting loads of fodder for the horses of the magistrates of the high court in Mexico City. The judges had regularly demanded loads of grasses and had not paid for them. The viceroy was trying to rectify the situation after the Nahuas had drawn up strenuous objections about the abuses of the magistrates in hieroglyphic and alphabetic Nahuatl. This example lacks a Nahuatl gloss that identifies it, but there is a reference to it in the Spanish text, and there are other tomines with glosses or textual references that support this interpretation.