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              NUMBER

            	
              SHARES

            
	 	 00001	 58,000 


    

    


    


    


    GREAT
SOUTHERN BANCORP, INC.

    


    INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF MARYLAND

    


    This
certifies that United States Department of the Treasury is the owner
of Fifty-Eight Thousand (58,000)

    


    FULLY
PAID AND NON ASSESSABLE SHARES OF FIXED RATE CUMULATIVE PERPETUAL PREFERRED
STOCK, SERIES A, PAR VALUE $0.01 PER SHARE (LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $1,000 PER
SHARE), OF

    


    GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP, INC.,
a Maryland corporation (the “Corporation”).  The shares
represented by this certificate are transferable only on the stock transfer
books of the Corporation by the holder of record hereof, or by such holder’s
duly authorized attorney or legal representative, upon the surrender of this
certificate properly endorsed.

    


    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
Corporation has caused this certificate to be executed by the signatures of its
duly authorized officers.

    


    DATED   December 5,
2008

    


    


    
    

     

    
      	 	
              _______________________________________

              Douglas W. Marrs

              Secretary 

            	 	
              _________________________________

              Joseph W. Turner

              President and Chief Executive
    officer 

            


    

     

     

    
      
         


      

      
         


         


      

      
         


      

    


    THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS
INSTRUMENT ARE NOT SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, DEPOSITS OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS OF A BANK AND
ARE NOT INSURED BY THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OR ANY OTHER
GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY.

    THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS
INSTRUMENT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE AND MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF EXCEPT WHILE A REGISTRATION STATEMENT
RELATING THERETO IS IN EFFECT UNDER SUCH ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT OR SUCH LAWS.
EACH PURCHASER OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS INSTRUMENT IS NOTIFIED THAT
THE SELLER MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT
PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER. ANY TRANSFEREE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED
BY THIS INSTRUMENT BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF (1) REPRESENTS THAT IT IS A
"QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT), (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE
SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS INSTRUMENT EXCEPT (A) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION
STATEMENT WHICH IS THEN EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (B) FOR SO LONG AS
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS INSTRUMENT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT
TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS
OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE
IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (C) TO THE
ISSUER OR (D) PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH
PERSON TO WHOM THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS INSTRUMENT ARE TRANSFERRED A
NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND.

    The Corporation will furnish to any
stockholder on request and without charge a full statement of the designations
and any preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions,
limitations as to dividends, qualifications, and terms and conditions of
redemption of the stock of each class which the Corporation is authorized to
issue, of the differences in the relative rights and preferences between the
shares of each series of preferred class which the Corporation is authorized to
issue, to the extent they have been set, and of the authority of the Board of
Directors to set the relative rights and preferences of subsequent series of a
preferred class of stock. Such request may be made to the Secretary of the
Corporation.