TABLE OF COINAGE.
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parts. The arroba of oil is equal to; gallons 33 parts.
Long Measure.—The foot is divided into 12 pulgadas, and is equal to 11 inches 128 parts English. The palmo measures 9 pulgadas, or 813 inches: the vara, 4 palmas, or 33 inches 384 parts.
For purposes of elucidation, in the tables in this volume, the terms dollar and cent have been employed: the former of eight silver rials, equal to about 4s. 2d. sterling; and the latter one hundred to each dollar. But the following is a table of Mexican coinage, with all the names of coins characteristic of the country.
Silver Coins.
| £ | s. | d. | |
| The peso, or dollar, equal to two tostons | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| The toston, equal to two pesatas | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| The pesata, equal to two rials | 0 | 1 | 012 |
| The rial, equal to two medios | 0 | 0 | 614 |
| The medio, equal to two currtillas | 0 | 0 | 313 |
