peso (Osu10v)
This simplex glyph for a peso coin is a detail from the Codex Osuna, folio 10 verso (or Image 23). It shows a coin with a black cross (+) on it. The coin has a light turquoise-blue wash over it. It is just one peso here, but the attached notation, as can be seen in the contextualizing image, shows that the quantity of pesos was much more than one. This was a debt the Nahuas felt were owed to them from the Viceroy don Luis de Velasco for 4,141 loads of grass that was gathered and delivered for the purpose of feeding the colonizers’ horses.
Stephanie Wood
The peso was a coin that the Nahuas came to know well, even if tomines (eighths of pesos) were more often in their own hands. Tomines were so common that the word tomin became synonymous with money.
Stephanie Wood
1551–1565
Jeff Haskett-Wood
pesos, monedas, dinero, deudas, comida para caballos, valor, divisa
peso, a unit of money, a peso (a loanword from Spanish), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/peso
el peso
Stephanie Wood
Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico (Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de México), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
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