EX-4.1



 EXHIBIT 4.1 
 



 
  

COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED: 
 AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, LLC 
 BROOKLYN, NY 
 TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR

 BY: 
 AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE 
 Dated: 

NUMBER 
 C O M M O N S T O C K 
 transferable on the books
of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this certificate 
 properly endorsed. 
 This certificate is not valid
unless countersigned and registered by the Transfer Agent and Registrar. 
 WITNESS the facsimile seal of the
Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers. 
 INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA 
 This Certifies That: 

is the owner of 
 SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS 
 CUSIP 018772
30 1 
 SHARES 
 ALLIANCE ONE INTERNATIONAL, INC. 
 FULLY PAID AND
NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK, NO PAR VALUE, OF 
 Alliance One International, Inc. 

AR 
 PRESIDENT 
 AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 

SECRETARY 
 ALLIANCE ONE INTERNATIONAL, INC. 
 VIRGINIA

 SEAL 
 1994 
 CORPORATE 

SPECIMEN SPECIMEN 
 SPECIMEN 







 



 
  
 ALLIANCE
ONE INTERNATIONAL, INC 
 The Corporation will furnish to any shareholder, without charge and upon request in
writing to the office of the Corporation, 
 a full statement of the designations, relative rights, preferences
and limitations of the shares of each class authorized to 
 be issued, and the variations in the relative
rights, preferences and limitations between the shares of each series of any 
 class of shares authorized to be
issued in series, so far as the same have been fixed and determined, and the authority of 
 the board of
directors to fix and determine the relative rights, preferences and limitations of subsequent series of shares 

of any such class. 
 The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as 
 though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
 TEN COM—as tenants in common UNIF GIFT MIN ACT—.Custodian. 
 TEN ENT—as tenants by the entireties (Cust) (Minor) 
 JT TEN—as joint tenants with right of under Uniform Gifts to Minors 
 survivorship and not as 
 tenants in common Act.

 (State) 
 Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 
 For Value Received, hereby sell, assign and transfer unto 
 PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER 

IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE 
 (PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE) 
 Shares 
 of the capital stock represented by the
within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint 
 Attorney 

to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the 

premises. 
 Dated 
 NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE(S) TO THIS ASSIGNMENT
MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME(S) AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE 
 OF THE CERTIFICATE, IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT
ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATSOEVER. 
 Signature(s) Guaranteed 

By 
 The Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution 
 (Banks, Stockbrokers, Savings and Loan Associations and Credit Unions 
 with membership in an approved Signature Guarantee Medallion Program), 
 pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-15. 
 KEEP THIS
CERTIFICATE IN A SAFE PLACE. IF IT IS LOST, STOLEN, MUTILATED OR DESTROYED, THE CORPORATION 
 MAY REQUIRE A BOND
OF INDEMNITY AS A CONDITION TO THE ISSUANCE OF A REPLACEMENT CERTIFICATE.