NUMBER                                                                    SHARES

_________C

                          RENAISSANCE ACQUISITION CORP.

              INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

                                  COMMON STOCK

                                                                 SEE REVERSE FOR
                                                             CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

          THIS CERTIFIES THAT                                    CUSIP _________

          IS THE OWNER OF

   FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE PAR VALUE OF $.0001 EACH OF THE
                                 COMMON STOCK OF

                          RENAISSANCE ACQUISITION CORP.

transferable on the books of the Corporation in person or by duly authorized
attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly endorsed.

The Corporation will be forced to liquidate if it is unable to complete a
business combination within 18 months from the consummation of its initial
public offering (or 24 months if certain extension criteria have been
satisfied), all as more fully described in the Corporation's final prospectus
dated ________, 2006

This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and
registered by the Registrar.

Witness the facsimile seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of
its duly authorized officers.

Dated:

                          RENAISSANCE ACQUISITION CORP.
                                    CORPORATE
                                      SEAL
                                      2006
                                    DELAWARE



     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        UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ______ Custodian _______
               common                                   (Cust)           (Minor)
     TEN ENT - as tenants by the                        under Uniform Gifts to
               entireties                               Minors Act _____________
     JT TEN  - as joint tenants                                       (State)
               with right of
               survivorship and
               not as tenants in
               common

     Additional Abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

                          RENAISSANCE ACQUISITION CORP.

     The Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so
requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating,
optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof of the
Corporation and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions of such
preferences and/or rights. This certificate and the shares represented thereby
are issued and shall be held subject to all the provisions of the Certificate of
Incorporation and all amendments thereto and resolutions of the Board of
Directors providing for the issue of shares of Preferred Stock (copies of which
may be obtained from the secretary of the Corporation), to all of which the
holder of this certificate by acceptance hereof assents.

     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 will
full power of substitution in the premises.


Dated
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                                        NOTICE: The signature to this assignment
                                                must correspond with the name as
                                                written upon the face of the
                                                certificate in every particular,
                                                without alteration or
                                                enlargement or any change
                                                whatever.

Signature(s) Guaranteed:


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THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD 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 S.E.C. RULE
17Ad-15).

The holder of this certificate shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust
fund only in the event of the Company's liquidation upon failure to consummate a
business combination or if the holder seeks to convert his respective shares
into cash upon a business combination which he voted against and which is
actually completed by the Company. In no other circumstances shall the holder
have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust fund.