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Denarius - Hadrian TRANQVILLITAS AVG P P COS III, Tranquillitas
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 129-130 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse lettering | TRANQVILLITAS AVG P P COS III (Translation: Tranquillitas Augusti, Pater Patriae, Consul Tertium. Tranquility of the emperor (Augustus), father of the nation, consul for the third time.) |
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| Mintage | ND (129-130) |
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Tranquillitas — "tranquility" — was not a traditional Roman deity but a personified abstraction Hadrian actively promoted as political messaging during the consolidation years following his abandonment of Trajan's eastern conquests. The COS III dating places this squarely in 119–138, and the specific pairing with P P (Pater Patriae, accepted 128 AD) narrows it to the final decade of his reign, when the empire was at its broadest peacetime extent and Hadrian was mid-circuit on his famous provincial tours.
RIC II.3 #1049 reflects the 2007 revision of the earlier Mattingly-Sydenham volume, which substantially reorganized Hadrianic coinage by die study.