THOMPSON   BRUSSELS   CINCINNATI  CLEVELAND   COLUMBUS  DAYTON  WASHINGTON, D.C.
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HINE
                                   August 16, 2002


AmeriPrime Funds
1793 Kingswood Drive, Suite 200
Southlake, Texas 76092

      Re: AmeriPrime Funds, File Nos. 33-96826 and 811-9096

Gentlemen:

     A legal  opinion that we prepared was filed with  Post-Effective  Amendment
No. 65 to the AmeriPrime Funds Registration Statement (the "Legal Opinion").  We
hereby give you our consent to  incorporate  by reference the Legal Opinion into
Post-Effective Amendment No. 72 to the Registration Statement (the "Amendment"),
and consent to all references to us in the Amendment.


                                                              Very truly yours,

                                                                  /s/
                                                              Thompson Hine LLP