Great Warriors,Roman Legionary.

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ROMAN LEGIONARY Great Warrior Silver Coin 1$ Tuvalu 2010.
The Roman Legionary Silver Proof is the first in the new and exciting Great Warriors series, to be released by the Perth Mint. Tough, courageous and highly-disciplined infantry soldiers, professional legionaries formed the backbone of the Roman army, a formidable fighting force that conquered and controlled Rome’s vast Empire
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The Roman legion (from the Latin legio, meaning "military levy") refers to the heavy infantry that was the basic military unit of the ancient Roman army in the period of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. A legion consisted of several cohorts of heavy infantry known as legionaries or legionnaires. It was almost always accompanied by one or more attached units of auxiliaries, who were not Roman citizens and provided cavalry, ranged troops and skirmishers to complement the legion's heavy infantry