125th Anniversary of the shootout at the OK Corral - post an 1881 coin!
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Tombstone, Arizona Territory, October 26th, 1881
Virgil Earp, Tombstone Marshall and his brothers Wyatte and Morgan Earp along with a John H. "Doc" Holliday attempted to disarm and arrest the Clanton and McLaury brothers for violating the town gun ordinance. In a small 15 ft wide alley near the OK corral, they shot the offenders down.
The fame of the shootout and Wyatte Earp would not be well known until the book "Wyatte Earp, Frontier Marshall" by Stewart Lake in 1931.
Anyway, in honor of the event, here's an 1881 coin.
Virgil Earp, Tombstone Marshall and his brothers Wyatte and Morgan Earp along with a John H. "Doc" Holliday attempted to disarm and arrest the Clanton and McLaury brothers for violating the town gun ordinance. In a small 15 ft wide alley near the OK corral, they shot the offenders down.
The fame of the shootout and Wyatte Earp would not be well known until the book "Wyatte Earp, Frontier Marshall" by Stewart Lake in 1931.
Anyway, in honor of the event, here's an 1881 coin.
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etexmike
My US History teacher asked us one time for extra credit what "OK" stood for in "OK Corral.
Still to this day, don't know.
anybody????
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Coin trivia:
in 1879 the Specie Resumption Act made the exchange of silver coins and Greenbacks convertable to gold. This drew tremendous amounts of silver coins out of hiding and into circulation. The coins were mostly dated 1853-1860's. There was no need to issues more Dimes, Quarters and Halfs. Dollars were to be made by law, but the Mint made them only up to the minimum called for in the Bland-Allison Act of 1878. (at the time they were called Bland Dollars)
<< <i>I had a feeling this would turn into a "show us your 1881-S Morgan" thread.
and the problem with this is????
I'd think that the morgan (especially from SanFrancisco) would be a great representative coin from the place, and the era!
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<< <i>I had a feeling this would turn into a "show us your 1881-S Morgan" thread.
and the problem with this is????! >>
Did I say it was a problem? I just know there are a lot of really nice '81-S Morgans out there. That was arguably the best struck, most well-made Morgan in the entire series, and they're affordable, so I figured we'd see a lot of nice ones.
Tom
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<< <i>My US History teacher asked us one time for extra credit what "OK" stood for in "OK Corral.
Still to this day, don't know.
anybody?? >>
Best I could come up with.....
: : 1. Orrin Kendall biscuits, which soldiers ate during the Civil War.
: : 2. Short for Aux Cayes, a Haitian port that American sailors praised for its rum.
: : 3. Old Keokuk, a Native American tribal chief who was said to have signed treaties with his initials.
: : 4. OK stands for "all correct" or the illiterate phrase "Orl Korrect."
: : 5. U.S. President Martin Van Buren's nickname "Old Kinderhook" -- OK for short. He was a native of Kinderhook, N.Y.
: : 6. Choctaw word "okeh," (or "hoke") meaning "indeed" (or "It is so.")
: : 7. Scottish "auch aye", meaning "ah yes." (Or "och aye," meaning "okay.")
: : 8. From the French maritime phrase "au quai" meaning "at dock", and therefore at last safe from the ravages of the open sea.
: : 9. '0 killed' - the report of the night's death toll during the First World War.
: : 10. All clear after the shoot-out at O.K. Corral.
: : 11. Instruments calibrated at an Observatory at Kew had, affixed to them, a stamp, or impression, to authenticate that calibration. This stamp was O K - Observatory Kew.
: : 12. The abbreviation is for Oberst Kommandant, German for "Colonel in Command," used by either -- take your pick -- a General Schliessen or Baron von Steuben when initialing letters and orders during the American Revolution.
: : 13. It comes from the name of a freight agent, Obadiah Kelly, whose initials were widely disseminated on bills of lading.
: : 14. The abbreviation is for Open Key, popularized by telegraphers in the 1860s.
: : 15. It comes from the names of Lords Onslow and Kilbracken, who initialed bills after they were read and approved in England's House of Lords.
: : 16. From a misreading of "Order Recorded" on official documents.
: : 17. Or from Finnish "oikea," correct.
: : 18. From the Greek "olla," all, plus "Kalla," good.
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<< <i>My US History teacher asked us one time for extra credit what "OK" stood for in "OK Corral.
Still to this day, don't know.
anybody?? >>
Best I could come up with.....
: : 1. Orrin Kendall biscuits, which soldiers ate during the Civil War.
: : 2. Short for Aux Cayes, a Haitian port that American sailors praised for its rum.
: : 3. Old Keokuk, a Native American tribal chief who was said to have signed treaties with his initials.
: : 4. OK stands for "all correct" or the illiterate phrase "Orl Korrect."
: : 5. U.S. President Martin Van Buren's nickname "Old Kinderhook" -- OK for short. He was a native of Kinderhook, N.Y.
: : 6. Choctaw word "okeh," (or "hoke") meaning "indeed" (or "It is so.")
: : 7. Scottish "auch aye", meaning "ah yes." (Or "och aye," meaning "okay.")
: : 8. From the French maritime phrase "au quai" meaning "at dock", and therefore at last safe from the ravages of the open sea.
: : 9. '0 killed' - the report of the night's death toll during the First World War.
: : 10. All clear after the shoot-out at O.K. Corral.
: : 11. Instruments calibrated at an Observatory at Kew had, affixed to them, a stamp, or impression, to authenticate that calibration. This stamp was O K - Observatory Kew.
: : 12. The abbreviation is for Oberst Kommandant, German for "Colonel in Command," used by either -- take your pick -- a General Schliessen or Baron von Steuben when initialing letters and orders during the American Revolution.
: : 13. It comes from the name of a freight agent, Obadiah Kelly, whose initials were widely disseminated on bills of lading.
: : 14. The abbreviation is for Open Key, popularized by telegraphers in the 1860s.
: : 15. It comes from the names of Lords Onslow and Kilbracken, who initialed bills after they were read and approved in England's House of Lords.
: : 16. From a misreading of "Order Recorded" on official documents.
: : 17. Or from Finnish "oikea," correct.
: : 18. From the Greek "olla," all, plus "Kalla," good.
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I always accepted my English teacher's answer--it came from the archaic English spelling "All Korrect"--alltered to "all correct" in the 1839 dictionary, but with the initials retained for common use. So an "OK" corral would just mean the place was advertised as "all correct" or "all right"--no problems for horse lovers!---not named Clanton etal.
<< <i>My US History teacher asked us one time for extra credit what "OK" stood for in "OK Corral.
Still to this day, don't know.
anybody?? >>
Perhaps a popular kosher heksher to let folks know their livestock there was slaughtered according to rabbinic law.
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<< <i>My US History teacher asked us one time for extra credit what "OK" stood for in "OK Corral.
Still to this day, don't know.
anybody???? >>
Old Koot
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A neat article by SJ Reidhead
Nice coin IGWT:
It's MS right?
I was looking for an 1881 to show. Couldn't believe, with all my coins, I do not own one.