Gold 1013 Fm

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DescriptionGold dinar from Al-Hakim the Fatimid Caliph who ruled the Muslim empire in the period 386-411 AH (996 - 1021 AD). Al-Hakim is the eighth caliph of the Fatimid dynasty. His full name being, Abu Ali Al-Mansur Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. This is a nice almost very fine coin with quite a bit of luster and a nice bold and well centered strike. Like most of al-hakim's coins the calligraphy is a bit difficult to read. The flan is slightly wavy and lightly clipped. Be that as it may, it is still a nice and very desirable coin. This is the standard type with four-line legends in fields, is dated 403 AH and was minted in Misr. Please carefully review the image provided as it is part and parcel of our description. Date: The coin shows the date of minting as 403 AH (1013 AD).Mint: Misr current day Fustat on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.Size and weight: This is a dinar, weighs 3.8 grams and is 21 mm in diameter.References: It is Album #709, is listed in Lane Poole's Catalog of the Khedivial Collection as 1047, and listed by Nicol as #1091.Condition: I would grade this coin as a nice almost very fine. The coin has a well centered strike and shows all the calligraphy without any loss but is a bit difficult to read. The piece is lustrous, but the flan is a bit wavy. In addition, the coin is slightly clipped. Despite the coin's flan showing slight waviness and being lightly clipped, it is still great looking and represents a good example of al-Hakim's coinage worthy of a spot in your collection. The coin is much better than the photos suggest. Please see image for additional condition information. Historic Perspective: The Fatimid Caliphate is a Shi'a dynasty that ruled over the Islamic world of mostly North Africa from 5 January 910 to 1171. The ruling elite of the state belonged to the Ismaili branch of Shi'ism. They are also part of the chain of holders of the office of Caliph, as recognized by most Muslims, the only period in which the Shia Imamate and the Caliphate were united to any degree, excepting the Caliphate of Ali himself. The Fatimids were reputed to exercise a degree of religious tolerance towards non-Ismaili sects of Islam as well as towards Jews and Coptic Christians. The Fatimids had their origins in Ifriqiya (modern-day Tunisia and eastern Algeria) but after the conquest of Egypt about 970 AD, they built the City of Cairo and used it as their Capital.Abu Ali Al-Mansur Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah reigned in the period of 386-411 AH. His rule was rather capricious punctuated by intermittent periods of persecution of the Christians and the prohibition of Mulkhia, a favorite green soup of the Egyptian populace. He disappeared on 27 Shawwal 411AH or 13 February 1021 and was never found again. It is not certain what happened to him. The dynasty was founded in 296 AH (909 AD) by Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah, who legitimized his claim through descent from Muhammad by way of his daughter Fatima as-Zahra and her husband Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, the first Shi'a Imam, hence the name al-Fatimiyyen "Fatimid". Abdullah al-Mahdi's control soon extended over all of central Maghreb, an area consisting of the modern countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, which he ruled from Mahdia, his newly-built capital in Tunisia. The Fatimids (Abu Tamim Ma'add al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah) entered Egypt in 358 AH (969AD) , conquering the Ikhshidid dynasty. Eventually they founded a new capital at al-Qahirat "The Subduer" (modern Cairo) - a reference to the appearance of the planet Mars. They continued to conquer the surrounding areas until they ruled from Tunisia to Syria and even crossed over into Sicily and southern Italy. Under the Fatimids, Egypt became the center of an empire that included at its peak North Africa, Sicily, Palestine, Syria, the Red Sea coast of Africa, Yemen and the Hejaz. Under the Fatimids, Egypt flourished and developed an extensive trade network in both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean (establishing trade and diplomatic ties all the way to China under the Song Dynasty), which eventually determined the economic course of Egypt during the High Middle Ages.After the decay of the Fatimid political system in the 1160s, the Zengid ruler Nur ad-Din had his general, Saladin, seize Egypt in 1169, forming the Sunni Ayyubid Dynasty.

Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd. ("the Company") (SPA-TSXV) is pleased to announce the results of the in-fill drilling program up to the end of February, 2012 within the northern portion of the Main Zone of its Spanish Mountain Gold Project (the "Project") located in central British Columbia, Canada. The results presented in this news release represent approximately 30% of the total planned drilling program being carried out to reclassify gold mineralization from the Inferred to Measured and Indicated (M&I) categories. In a news release dated November 15, 2011, the Company announced a resource estimate (National Instrument 43-101 compliant) for the Project containing multi-million gold ounces in both the M&I and Inferred categories.

Highlights of Drilling Results include:

Significant assay results are contained in Table 1 appended to this news release.

Discussion of Results

The objective of the current drilling program within the Main Zone is to support a further reclassification of Inferred gold ounces, as previously reported in a resource statement, to Measured and Indicated ounces. The drilling at the Main Zone is expected to continue until late April, 2012, after which the drilling program at the Phoenix Zone will commence immediately.

Upon completion of this program, an updated resource estimate for the Main Zone will be prepared. It is anticipated that this NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate will be finalized during the summer and will be incorporated in a technical report for the Project to be published in the fall of 2012. The Feasibility Study for the Project is currently on schedule for completion in the third quarter of 2013.

Brian Groves, President and CEO commented "These drilling results continue to support our belief that the in-fill program will significantly increase the gold ounces contained in the Measured and Indicated categories within an updated resource estimate for the Main Zone."

Judy Stoeterau, P.Geo., the Company's Vice-President of Geology and the qualified person as defined under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed the contents of this news release. All core samples were assayed at ALS Chemex Laboratory in Vancouver, BC. The Company has retained Discovery Consultants of Vernon, BC, to monitor independently the quality control and quality assurance (QC/QA) data on the Spanish Mountain Gold Project. Analytical precision and accuracy are being measured and monitored by the use of duplicate core, prep and pulp samples and by standards (reference material). Possible contamination during the sampling and processing procedures is being monitored by the insertion of blank samples.

About Spanish Mountain Gold

Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd. is focused on the responsible development of its flagship Spanish Mountain gold project in southern central British Columbia, Canada. The Company has a strong cash position with no debt and owns 100% of four gold properties located in British Columbia. Additional information about the Company is available on its website: www.spanishmountaingold.com

On Behalf of the Board,

SPANISH MOUNTAIN GOLD LTD.

Brian Groves,

President and CEO

Contact:

Colin Clancy

(604) 601-3651

in...@spanishmountaingold.com

www.spanishmountaingold.com

Andreas Curkovic,

Proconsul Capital Ltd.

(416) 577-9927

This News Release contains forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements are statements which relate to future events. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may", "should", "expects", "plans", "anticipates", believes", "estimates", "predicts", "potential", or "continue" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking-statements. Management has assumed that these will be our major projects going forward. Risks include that we are unable to satisfy environmental or other regulators, that we determine that our resources are not commercially viable, or that we have difficulties due to unavailability of labour or equipment.

While these forward-looking statements, and any assumptions upon which they are based, are made in good faith and reflect our current judgment regarding the direction of our business, actual results will almost always vary, sometimes materially, from any estimates, predictions, projections, assumptions or other future performance suggests herein. Except as required by applicable law the Company does not intend to update any forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual results.

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101 - Highly micaceous ware, usually dark grey or brown, associated with hand-made forms.

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Unoxidised or partially oxidised ware, generally dark grey and/or brown. This fabric is hard with somewhat hackly fractures. Mica flakes (muscovite) occur in moderate to common frequency, being of variable sizes up to 5mm and typically, are ill-sorted. Quartz grains also occur but are much less frequent than mica. Surfaces, where extant, are very often smooth.

This is a fairly broad category and is clearly associated with hand-made forms, including vessels with everted rims and handles. Often the original sherd surfaces have not survived amongst the field-collected items, having been abraded. This fabric category equates to the micaceous ware typical of the "Castrejan pottery" of northern Portugal (Da Silva 1986), which is tempered with mica schist.

The nature of this fabric means that it is fairly fragile and hence this may give rise to a comparatively low average sherd weight despite the comparative thickness of many of the sherds in the ware. The fragmentary nature of sherds of this fabric type means that it is often difficult to find suitable sherds to draw (cf. Little 1985) and hence it is probably under-represented amongst the drawn material. However, it evidently occurred in a wide variety of forms. This fabric occurs widely at castro sites within the area of the Ave Valley survey, being recorded, for instance, from Citania de S. Loureno (material in Esposende Museum), Citania de Penices, Citania de Terroso and Citania de Sanfins.

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