Harley Russo camps outside Mint for a week and knocks back offers for first coin

By Clare Sibthorpe
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:19pm, first published December 30 2015 - 8:54pm

Sixteen-year-old Harley Russo has spent three weeks of his life camped by the steps of the Royal Australian Mint, determined to hold on to the first minted coin of the year struck anywhere on Earth.

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