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coztic teocuitla tlatemantli.

Headword: 
coztic teocuitla tlatemantli.
Principal English Translation: 

a piece of gold, a disc of gold (see Molina; and see the Codex Mendoza folio 40 recto for "texuelos de oro de tamaño de una ostia y de grosor un dedo")

Orthographic Variants: 
cuztic teocuitla tlatemantli
Alonso de Molina: 

cuztic teocuitla tlatemantli. pieza o tejuelo doro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 27v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Metals, Mining