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<ARTICLE>                                            9
<LEGEND>
This schedule  contains summary  financial  information  extracted from
Provident  Financial  Group,  Inc.'s  10-Q for March  31,  2000  and is
qualified in its entirety be reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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