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THOMPSON  BRUSSELS   CINCINNATI   CLEVELAND   COLUMBUS    DAYTON  NEW YORK  WASHINGTON, D.C.
  HINE
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                                                              July 25, 2003


AmeriPrime Funds
431 North Pennsylvania Street
Indianapolis, IN  46204

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

Gentlemen:

     A legal  opinion that we prepared was filed with  Post-Effective  Amendment
No. 76 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. 78 to the Registration Statement (the "Amendment"),
and consent to all references to us in the Amendment.

                                                              Very truly yours,

                                                                       /s/

                                                              Thompson Hine LLP

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