cinquo

Updated: June 18, 2025

If one tendered a Mexican cinquo pesos for a yearling or a two-year-old, the owner might perhaps offer the animal as a gift, or he might smile and say "Con mucho gusto" as he was handed a few pieces of silver. There were plenty of cows everywhere in the world! Let us, therefore, give the old Spaniard full credit alike in picturesque romance and in the organized industry of the cow.

Emerson Hough - The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West