Stater - Pharnabazus II Tarsus

Pharnabazus II received command of Cilicia and its mint at Tarsus around 380 BC as reward for his role in expelling the Spartan king Agesilaus from Asia Minor — a campaign in which Persian diplomacy ultimately proved more decisive than Persian arms. His tenure at Tarsus was short-lived; by 374 BC he had been dispatched westward to lead a naval expedition against Egypt, a costly failure that consumed much of the decade.

The SNG von Aulock 5920 attribution places this piece within a well-documented but chronologically compressed series, the entire run confined to roughly five years of active satrapal administration.