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.