pieces of eight

[Anthony Grant]

You probably all know this numismatic stuff, but David Rood discussed coins of this kind in some Wichita work of his that I've seen.  The panish coins of this type were called tomi'n (where ' is my attempt to produce the acute accent), which is a common word for money in many languages of Mesoamerica.  In Spanish it derives from a form of the Arabic word for 'eight' (Bruce can doubtless cast mor light on which form this is in Arabic but I know the basic numeral in literary Arabic is thamanya).

Anthony



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