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Et tu, Brute? Perhaps anyone who collects ancient coins should be asking themselves this question since a local district attorney in New York appears to have acted shockingly quickly to surrender two ancient coins to foreign governments before any trial had been conducted.
At least on the surface it appears Manhattan (New York City) District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. may have acted with irrational exuberance in