Greetings Conscientious Steemians of the World!

Today I would like to show off an exemplary numismatic silver round or three from Le Grand Mint out of Germany. By now, you might have noticed I like to collect rounds that aim to share a message. Such is the case with these. I'm pretty sure I paid too much for them, but man are they pretty! I love the elegant-yet-simple design and its overall uniqueness. And I LOVE that they bring focus to something we should all pay more attention to, our natural world and her magnificent animals! ...all in beautiful, precious, .999 silver with a low mintage of only 500 any given year.

I've resigned myself to the fact I'll probably end up owning an entire set sooner or later. I began with the 2017 polar bear.

And now I've added a 2015 Rhino and a 2018 Giant Ant Eater.

The sad truth is all these animals are in decline.

Many choose to shrug their shoulders and take an anthropocentric view of the world, complicit in the opinion that the world is ours to exploit. I firmly believe this is mental laziness and also a convenient premise because it absolves us of any sense of responsibility. "Such is the price of progress", they say.

PURE BULLSHIT.

We are called to be stewards of the earth, not self-centered takers. When we humans put our collective minds to something and work with nature in cooperation, great things happen. I won't bore you with the evidence of that fact, but it is all around for you to take note of. So many of God's creations have gone extinct and I'd hate to lose even one more. I have no idea if these silver rounds will do anything to help the situation, but if not, it is my sincere hope that the message of this post someday might. Think about it. Why do so many rounds have animals on them? Because they are truly majestic and our inner selves know this truth instinctively.

Okay I'm starting to get angry all by myself so I'll cut it short. Enjoy some more pictures!

I also really like the reverse of the round...bit of a sucker for anything that looks like a coat of arms:

All together now:

Thanks for reading through my rant! Hopefully, the beauty of these rounds made it all worth enduring!