As - Augustus CAESAR

Sabratha was one of the three cities of Tripolitania — the region that gave the later province its name — and issued its own bronze coinage during the Augustan period under a degree of civic autonomy that was already eroding by the mid-first century AD. These local bronzes circulated alongside Roman imperial issues but served a distinctly municipal function, likely tied to market activity in one of North Africa's busiest ports on the Mediterranean grain and trade routes.

MAA 43a places this piece within a small, documented group. The series is thin enough that die links between surviving specimens have been studied to estimate original output — almost certainly in the low thousands.