What do you pay with?

There are several types of money that we use. Small purchases are made with cacao beans. These have to be imported from lowland areas. In an Aztec market place, a small rabbit is 30 beans, a turkey egg is 3 beans, and a tamal is one bean. A larger purchase is made with standardized lengths of cotton cloth, called quachtli. Different qualities of quachtli can be 65 to 300 cacao beans. To put this in perspective, about 20 quachtli can support your average commoner for a year in Tenochtitlan. If your running low on cash, a man can always sell his daughter as a sex slave or for religious sacrifice. She would be worth about 500 to 700 beans.