Pictures of Aztec Money

[djui5]

Hi

 

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[kanabite]

HI RANDY


here is some money lol View attachment 1087449

 

[gollum]

Reviving this thread with a question. Hello all. (I posted this in the metal detecting forum before I saw this thread).
I dug this item about 18 months ago at an old home site near Nashville. No one has ever been able to ID it. I sent a pic in to American Digger magazine and they put it in their STUMPT section, but I never heard any diagnosis until today when I opened the latest issue to see my ancient mushroom bottle opener once again. Baton Rouge historian Billy Spedale wrote in to say that the item is almost identical to one he got in trade years ago from a collector (now deceased). The collector claimed that it was a form of currency used by Aztec, Inca, Mayan, or other early American civilizations. He said the one he had had a small ink numeral on it, indicating that had at one time been part of a collection. Anyone know anything more?

I've since been searching images of Aztec currency and have seen things that resemble this item, but not exactly.

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Its a bottle opener

Mike

 

[djui5]

here is some money lol

Thanks. Looks like $40,000,000,0000,00000000 buried just outside Nogales. I'll be there tomorrow. Lol.

 

[Loke]

Hi

Wow! A blast from the past!
Welcome back! :-)

 

[djui5]

Thanks, it's been a long time. That stupid "America Unearthed" show brought me back.

 

[sdcfia]

Its a bottle opener

Mike

I agree. Probably had a wooden handle originally.