A tasty currency: cocoa — Museum of the National Bank of Belgium
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Mar 4, 2013 - They used the cocoa beans as a barter currency to exchange for food or clothes, ... This commodity money became the most common means of ...
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Encyclopedia of Money: Cocoa Bean Currency
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Cocoa Bean Currency. At the time of the Spanish conquest, cocoa bean currency in the commercially active economy of the Aztec empire ranked above gold dust as the principal form of money. The Aztecs kept cocoa beans in bags holding 24,000 beans. Columbus met with a Yucatan ship hauling goods to trade for cocoa.CHOCOLATE: Food of the Gods - Cornell University
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When Money Grew on Trees. This facsimile from the Codex Mendoza (c. 1541) shows tribute that the Aztecs extracted twice a year from the cacao-growing region of Soconusco in southern Mexico. Next to the jaguar skins are two loads of cacao beans, which were used as currency as well as the drink of the elite.When did the Aztecs stop using cacao beans for money? - Mexicolore
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Pic 1: Display of cacao bean 'values' at the Chocolate Museum, Bruges. ... We don't know when cacao beans began to be used as money in ancient Mexico, butWhy were cocoa beans so valuable? Asked by ... - Mexicolore
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And as everybody wanted them, products of all kinds began to be exchanged for cocoa beans, till before long they had become a unit of currency (money).Beanz meanz money! - Mexicolore
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Most of us know that they bartered, exchanging one item for another; and most of us know that they used cacao (cocoa) beans as a simple rate of exchange.
A Brief History of Chocolate | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
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Mar 1, 2008 - Etymologists trace the origin of the word "chocolate" to the Aztec word "xocoatl," which referred to a bitter drink brewed from cacao beans.
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Counterfeit Chocolate: The Use of Cacao as “Money” in Ancient ...
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Feb 21, 2014 - At first, it seems that cacao was so tasty, and so important that it became money. Abean is like a dollar. The royal coffers under Aztec palaces ...
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