yeipohualli pesos (Chav1)
This black and white drawing or painting presents the simplex glyph for twenty pesos, given three times (a notation), referring to three twenties (yeipohualli), or 60. Each twenty is a round, black peso coin (the loanword "peso" appears in the contextualizing image text) in a crescent shape, with a corn cob inside. This appears to be a corn cob because of the segmentation of the kernels.
Stephanie Wood
The association between corn cobs and the number twenty is a cultural one. The corn here is not literally present. The reference is to the number of pesos, and corn is not literally present. The association between corn cobs and the number twenty is a cultural one. Twenty is a "full count" in the vigesimal system, and twenty ears of corn was probably a customary grouping.
See below for some other examples of the use of corn cobs to represent twenty--chiconpohualli pesos, and cempohualli pesos.
Stephanie Wood
Epoualli
yeipohualli or eyipohualli
Stephanie Wood
1578
pesos, monedas, dinero, veintes, maíz, mazorcas
This Spanish colonial-era coin was one of several that have been found in the chinampas of Tlahuac (formerly Cuitlahuac) in the southeastern part of CDMX. Museo Tomás Medina Villarruel. Photo by Stephanie Wood, 18 Feb. 2024.
eyi, three, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/eyi
yei, three, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yei
yeipohual(li), sixty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yeipohualli
pohual(li), one count, twenty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pohualli
peso, a peso, a unit of money, a loanword from Spanish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/peso
sesenta pesos
Stephanie Wood
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.”