William Hope "Coin" Harvey (August 16, 1851 – February 11, 1936) was an American lawyer, author, politician, and health resort owner best remembered as a prominent public intellectual advancing the idea of monetary bimetallism.

This ended his formal education, although he continued to study law, ultimately managing to gain admission to the West Virginia state bar.

[2] Harvey left the legal profession in 1884, ostensibly for reasons of health, and moved west to Colorado to work as a miner and buy and sell real estate.

This entire era was marked by general deflation, tight money supply, mass bankruptcies, and unemployment, which many attributed to a lack of sufficient circulating currency to support the needs of industry and commerce.

[1] Harvey became a leading advocate of a return to the unlimited coinage of silver into money, and in 1894 authored a popular pamphlet to advance this policy, Coin's Financial School, which became an important ideological document of the nascent Populist movement.

The massive circulation of this work made Harvey a public figure as one of the leading free silver advocates in America.

[3] The Chicago-based organization was dedicated to advancing the ideas of direct legislation and free coinage of silver through the supplying of inserts and stereographic plates on the topic to newspapers around the country.

[5] In 1898 group claimed an implausibly large network of 250 local lodges and a circulation of 30,000 for its official organ, The Patriots' Bulletin,[5] a weekly which was originally published as The National Bimetallist.

In 1900, Harvey turned away from politics to the world of business, purchasing land five miles outside of Rogers, Arkansas, with a view to building a health resort on the site.

[1] Harvey named the site "Monte Ne," which he claimed derived from the Spanish and Native American words for "mountain" and "water.