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The price of cacao and counterfeit cacao (commentary citing Berdan, Carrasco & Sessions).

Commentary copied from Mexicolore; Money Museum.

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  1. Source citing a 1545 Nahuatl document from Tlaxcala (Anderson, Berdan & Lockhart 1976, Doc. 34): a small rabbit for 30 beans, a good turkey hen for 100 beans, a turkey cock for 300 beans (another commentary says a turkey for 200 beans).
  2. "Florentine Codex," Book 10 (English translation cited by Carrasco & Sessions 1998): counterfeit cacao was made of ash, amaranth dough, wax, and avocado pits.

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