Issued under the directive of Lucius Furius Brocchus, this coin has numerous points of interest. Firstly, while known and employed since Etruscan times, this coin marks the first time the famous symbols of imperium (a curule chairs and fasces) appeared together numismatically. It is not at all surprising that Lucius chose these symbols, he had served commander less than 10 years prior, aided the military tribunes Publius Varinius and Lucius Cossinius against Spartacus in the 3rd Servile War. Additionally, his family the gens Furia, originally known as the Fusia, were one of Rome’s oldest and most patrician in all of Rome. As such, starting in 488 BC with the consulship of Sextus Furius Medullinus (425 years before this coin was struck!), the family held high political offices. The grains of wheat and barley corn on the obverse are most likely a reference to the cura annonae or grain dole related to a distant ancestor.