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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jb_depew, post: 4552701, member: 88227&quot;]Dolphin lore is interesting. I&#039;ve read that dolphin/human rescues often result in a dramatic ending for the dolphin, including sympathy-dying the moment they reach shore (if the human dies), or sometimes even turning the colors of the rainbow before dying dramatically. Here is a coin from Iasos in Caria that portrays one such legend: that of a young man named Hermias:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/0HOAGku.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Caria, Iasos Æ 16mm</p><p>250-190 BC</p><p>ΜΕΝΕΔΗΜΟΣ (Menedemos), Magistrate</p><p>Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo right.</p><p>Reverse: IA / ΜΕΝΕΔΗΜΟΣ , Hermias swimming with dolphin right.</p><p>References: SNG Copenhagen 410; Klein 521; BMC 125,6ff (Different name).</p><p>Size: 16mm</p><p>Weight: 3.75g</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a myth of a youth riding on a dolphin, which has been assigned to Iasos in Caria, a country south of the river Meander.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hermias of Iasos used to plunge into the sea each day after training at the gymnasium. Waiting faithfully was a tame dolphin who gave the boy rides far out into the sea and back. One day Hermias drowned. The dolphin rushed him back to shore, then expired from sorrow. Their friendship was memorialized in a statue of the two, and coins from Iasos show Hermias swimming with his arms over the dolphin&#039;s back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/533597/Delphinia_Greek_Myths_and_Legends" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/533597/Delphinia_Greek_Myths_and_Legends" rel="nofollow">Delphinia, Greek Myths and Legends. </a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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