Denarius - Hadrian TRANQVILLITAS AVG P P COS III, Tranquillitas

Hadrian's TRANQVILLITAS types belong to a broader programmatic series issued around 128–130 AD, coinciding with his extended travels through the eastern provinces. The personification of Tranquillitas — civic calm, orderly government — was a deliberate ideological statement from an emperor who had abandoned Trajan's expansionist wars and was actively negotiating the empire's consolidation behind fixed frontiers. Peace, in Hadrian's framing, was not passivity but policy.

RIC II.3 1047 is catalogued under the revised second edition of RIC, which substantially reclassified Hadrianic denarii and corrected numerous earlier attributions. Many pieces previously assigned different COS III dates were reshuffled in that revision.