Ancient Coin Stories

Let coins tell their stories…

Cilicia, Tarsos: Pharnabazos
379-374 BCE
AR stater, 24mm, 10.3 g
Female head facing
Bearded and helmeted head left, test cut and two countermarks, one of bull crossing (with crescent?) and one of wolf leaping with crescent at rear (Callatay countermarks B and C)
SNG Cop. 266

410 BCE

Pharnabazos orders ships built at Antandros. At the same time, Syracuse helps Antandros finish its city wall, resulting in citizen privileges for Syracusans there. When the ships are complete, Pharnabazos sails for Kalchedon.

409 BCE-
408 BCE

Abydos attacked by Athens but repelled by Pharnabazos.

399 BCE-
397 BCE

Deryklidas of Sparta supports the Ionian Greeks against the Persians. He besieges Atarneos for eight months until they accept his terms and takes Hamaxitos, Kolonai, and Ilion. This ends in an armistice with Pharnabazos.

398 BCE

During a battle between Deryklidas of Sparta and Pharnabazos with Tissaphernes, men from Priene and Achilleion fighting with the Spartans fled. Hamaxitos thus receives its freedom again.

354 BCE

Androkles of Amathos sails with the Aegean fleet of Pharnabazos and Autophradates.