basilikon
Sign in to savethumb|right|200px|One of the first basilika issued, with a seated Christ and the standing figures of Andronikos II and Michael IX holding a labarum between them. The legend reads ΘΕΕ ΒΟΗΘΕΙ AYTOKPATOPEC PWMAIWN ("God aid the emperors of the Romans").
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thumb|right|200px|One of the first basilika issued, with a seated Christ and the standing figures of Andronikos II and Michael IX holding a labarum between them. The legend reads ΘΕΕ ΒΟΗΘΕΙ AYTOKPATOPEC PWMAIWN ("God aid the emperors of the Romans").
The basilikon (, "imperial [coin]"), commonly also referred to as the '''' (Greek: δουκάτον), was a widely circulated Byzantine silver coin of the first half of the 14th century. Its introduction marked the return to a wide-scale use of silver coinage in the Byzantine Empire, and presaged the total abandonment of the gold coins around the middle of the century.