http://cngcoins.com/photos/big/3560439.jpg JA, your perfect coin: A Nabatean RR denarius---you must be drooling I certainly am---but my budget is way past stretching until the end of August....
red_spork! Awesome gift from a wonderful father! May you receive many more! I love Pre-retarif too. When they retarifed they went to an XVI then created the Asterisk style crossed-X. It actually represented the XVI in their cool way of combining letters... You can see the X, a V above the Cross, and the Cross is the I.
Very nice! Silver denarius, SRCV 95/1, Sydenham 411, Crawford 219/1e, RSC I Antestia 1, VF, Rome mint, weight 3.971g, maximum diameter 17.3mm, die axis 90o, 146 B.C.; obverse head of Roma right in winged helmet, C ANTESTI behind, X below chin; reverse Dioscuri riding right, puppy with both fore feet raised below, ROMA in a linear frame in ex, linear border