Note 25 — MEXICAN COPPER TOOLS.

Torquemada, Mon. Ind., Lib.—, Chap.—: “They also used certain copper coins, almost in the shape of a Greek Tau, Τ, its width about three or four fingers. It was a thin piece of plate of an uncertain size, and contained much gold.” Clavigero, The History of Mexico, Ed. Ch. Cullen, London, 1807, Vol. VII., Sect. 36, page 386, evidently copies the sentence when he says: “Their fourth species of money, which most resembled coined money, was made of pieces of copper, in the form of a T, and was employed in purchases of little value.”