Ancient Coin Stories

Pharnabazos is first recorded as satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia.

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.

Abydos attacked by Athens but repelled by Pharnabazos.

The Athenian exile Alkibiades is executed at his house in Persia, possibly at the order of Pharnabazos.

Pharnabazos is a major adversary of the 10,000 on their journey home.

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.

During a battle between Deryklidas of Sparta and Pharnabazos with Tissaphernes, men from Priene and Achilleion fighting with the Spartans fled. Hamaxitos and Larissa-Ptolemais thus receive their freedom again.

Tissaphernes is lured out and killed at Kolossai by Tithraustes, supported by Pharnabazos and Parysatis, the mother of Artaxerxes II.

The Spartan admiral Peisander is defeated and killed by a fleet headed by Pharnabazos and former Athenian admiral Konon at the Battle of Knidos.

Pharnabazos establishes a naval base at Melos.

Pharnabazos travels to Corinth and provides them with funds to rebuild their fleet, then he provides Athens the funds to rebuild their long walls.

Pharnabazos is reassigned by Artaxerxes II to lead an expedition into Egypt against Nektanebo I.

The Egyptian campaign under Pharnabazos fails.