The use of the word “LANA” began in Mexico, at the beginning of the 18th century. The person who would later become the Marquis of Jaral de Berrio, talked with the one who was already counted of San Mateo and Valparaíso, and, knowing that both had enormous extensions where the small cattle abounded and the sheep provided enormous wealth to them they boasted of how much wool the one had and how much the other. This, without a doubt, is an interesting legend, especially in the way so well told in which a friend of mine told me, but the origin of the idea that wool was money can be located with greater seniority, when the First Viceroy of New Spain, Don Antonio de Mendoza, implemented the use of “el Vellón” (the fleece) in Mexico.