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I William Hope Harvey am also known as Coin Harvey. I am the king of the Free Silver movement, prophet of Monte Ne, and have done many things in my lifetime. I was a school teacher, attorney, mined for silver in Colorado, was a real-estate developer in Denver and Ogden, promoter of the Palace of Minerals, in Pueblo, author of the book Coin's Financial School, personal advisor to William Jennings Bryan on Gold vs. Silver and Presidential Candidate on the Liberty Party ticket. I accomplished many things in my life but there is always more than can be done. I was born on August 16, 1851 to my parents Col. Robert Trigg Harvey and Anna Marie DeLimbrorx. I am sure my parents didn’t think of me their fifth child, as becoming a financial wizard and presidential candidate. I was born on a farm near Buffalo Virginia, and was named after my mother’s father, William Hope of Kentucky. As a child I was called Billy, and went to a log schoolhouse during the Civil War. I was lucky for in many areas there were no schools held during the full time of the war. When the war ended I left the county school and went to the Buffalo Academy for two years. This would have been like a high school and junior college of today. In 1867 at the age o