matlactzontli pesos (Chav1)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph or notation for matlactzontli (4,000) shows a frontal view of a vertical bundle of sticks, cut grass, or human hairs (a tzontli), which represents 400, and another sign on top with a round black peso coin and diamond shape meaning ten (matlactli) in front of it. This is a reference to a number of pesos (a loanword found in the Nahuatl text of the contextualizing image), which is a round black coin. The combination intends a multiplication effect, i.e., 10 x 400, which equals 4,000. The additional gloss "4 v" which appears above the tzontli signs, also supports this reading.