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Denarius - Hadrian TRANQVILLITAS AVG COS III, Tranquillitas
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 128-129 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P (Translation: Hadrianus Augustus, Pater Patriae. Hadrian, emperor (Augustus), father of the nation.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hadrian's extended tour of the eastern provinces, begun in 128 AD, provided the political backdrop for this issue. The reverse type — Tranquillitas, personifying calm and order — was not mere flattery. It functioned as deliberate messaging: Hadrian had spent years suppressing the aftermath of the Jewish revolt under Trajan and managing restive frontier populations, and the coinage broadcast a Rome at peace under careful administration rather than military conquest.
COS III anchors the issue to a narrow window; Hadrian held his third consulship from 119 AD but used it as a dating marker on coin reverses only intermittently through the late 120s.