Republican Coin

In the dying days of the Roman republic, Military Tribune Marcus Fabius Aquila of the XIIth Legion drops a silver denarius on the ramparts of Cado's Burg, a hilltop fortress in south west Britannia. What is he doing there - a Roman soldier - eighty years before Britannia is invaded by the troops of the Emperor Claudius?In 1966, some two thousand years later, the coin is discovered by Lynette Mason...