This issue closely copies the reverse type of C. Servilia in 127 BC, some 40 years earlier. The link between the coins is that they likely belonged to the same families which were related to Sulla. Crawford suggests that this issue, along with Crawford 360 and Crawford 370/1a relate them to the “original” triumvirate. The word triumvirate is typically associated with the 1st and 2nd, the first being composed of Pompey, Caesar and Crassus from 60-53 BC and the second, Octavian, Antony and Lepidus from 43-42 BC. That said, triumvirate was an institution formed much earlier and denoted a group of three holding power, in this case moneyers. Crawford believes that Sulla issued this coinage in order to enable him to issue civil coinage without appointing a new triumvirate. It also could be to celebrate the restoration of the new Republic in 80 BC. The obverse symbol of Apollo would have signified libertas to the people.