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Since 16^th century in art we commonly see Atlas holding the Earth on his shoulders, but according to the mythology he should bear the celestial sphere. My Atlas is just a clumsy muscle man. The athlete loses the balance and the Sky is about to fall on his head.

Titan Atlas had numerous children. His seven daughters—Pleiades: Alcyone, Electra, Celaeno, Maia, Merope, Sterope, Taygete (their names in Greek appear on the coin) committed suicide when her father was condemned by Zeus to carry the heavens on his shoulders. Then Zeus turned them into the stars. The cluster of Pleiades is a part of the Taurus constellation, close to the Auriga and Perseus constellations. We see all of them on the Sky map above the Titan’s head.

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Titan Cronus, sometimes confused with Chronos (personification of time), was the god of agriculture and keeper of the harvests. His attribute was a sickle or a scythe.

Cronus was the son of Gaia and Uranus—personifications of Earth and Sky. Gaia and Uranus were not only the parents of twelve Titans but also of bizarre giants: Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Handers) and Cyclops. Out of fear of the power of his deformed children, Uranus hid them in his wife’s body, thus condemning her to a great pain. In revenge, Gaia gave Cronus a sickle. Then the youngest of Titans castrated his own father, knocking him off the pedestal. Crippled and furious Uranus foretold to his son, that he was destined to be overcome by his own descendant. From now on, Cronus swallowed all his children, as they were born. However Rhea, Cronus’s clever wife, saved newborn Zeus. Once he had grown up, Zeus released his siblings from the insides of Cronus. With his brothers and sisters he thrown Cronus and other Titans into Tartarus.

On the coin: Cronus, god of the harvest is cutting a bunch of grapes. This is an allusion to the mutilation of Uranus with a sickle.