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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2262053, member: 32619&quot;]Alright!</p><p><br /></p><p>This photo was taken by my wife when I was in Korea in 2013:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]449086[/ATTACH] </p><p>Fit&#039;s the season? Don&#039;t have a picture of my son in this year&#039;s costume yet. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, to keep things honest...</p><p>Your link did inspire me search my collection and here&#039;s a coin featuring her son:<img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/jwt-72-thrace.3788/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Thasos, Thrace, BC 168-148</p><p>AR, tetradrachm, 16.12g, 31mm; 11h</p><p>Obv.: Portrait of Dionysus</p><p>Rev.: ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ to left, ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ to right, ΘΑΣΙΩΝ below; Hercules with lion pelt in arm resting on club. M monogram left</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I&#039;m not the expert on Greek mythology, but I did just read the Wikipedia article! Dionysus was the child of Persephone and Zeus, the same Zeus who was Persephone&#039;s father. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Interestingly Persephone was also central to the Orphic tradition which held separate religious beliefs than traditional Greek religion, revered Dionysus, and may go back as far as the 6th century B.C. Also, initiation into the Orphic mysteries granted advantages in the afterlife. It is also reported that the Orphic tradition was practiced in Thrace. Interesting. Thanks Wikipedia!</p><p><br /></p><p>And thanks for the prodding [USER=44183]@stevex6[/USER] because I just learned something more about the context of one of my coins! You&#039;re the man![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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