TYPE Byzantine Empire, Basil II Bulgaroktonos (976-1025 AD), clipped silver miliaresion, 1.94g DESCRIPTION . Obv: Cross between facing busts of Basil and Constantine, Greek legend around: EN TOUTO NIKAT BASILEI ET CONST ("May you win with this, Basil and Constantine") Rev: Greek legend +BASIL S CONSTAN PORFYROG PISTY BAS ROMAIO in five lines, ornaments above and below REFERENCE: SB 1811 GRADING: F / VF, clipped, some surface nicks, toned, scarce ORDER INFO: B2770, $105 A scarcer middle Byzantine silver, with pious legends on both sides, the obverse one characteristically reminiscent of the fateful words delivered by Christ to St. Constantine on the eve of his crucial worldly battle seven hundred years earlier.