EXHIBIT 5 (b)

                                   Specimen

              Certificate                                Number of
                Number                                    Shares
                  1                                        700


                               Van Kampen Merritt
                          Ohio Quality Municipal Trust
                   Organized as a Massachusetts Business Trust
                            Auction Preferred Shares
                         $50,000 Liquidation Preference

                                                           Cusip No. 920923-208

         This certifies that Cede & Co. is the owner of seven hundred (700)
fully paid and non-assessable preferred shares of beneficial interest, par value
$.01 per share, liquidation preference $50,000 per share, designated Auction
Preferred Shares, of Van Kampen Merritt Ohio Quality Municipal Trust (the
"Fund") transferable only on the books of the Fund by the holder hereof in
person by Attorney upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This
Certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the registrar and transfer
agent.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF the said Fund has caused this Certificate to be
signed by its duly authorized officer and its corporate seal to be hereunto
affixed this 10th day of December, A.D. 1991.


  Bankers Trust Company                  Van Kampen Merritt
    As Registrar and                  Ohio Quality Municipal Trust
     Transfer Agent


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Authorized Signature            President                Secretary

         TRANSFER OF THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO
THE RESTRICTIONS SPECIFIED IN THE CERTIFICATE OF VOTE OF THE FUND AND IN THE
MASTER PURCHASER'S LETTER, COPIES OF WHICH ARE FILED WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE
FUND.

         THE FUND WILL FURNISH WITHOUT CHARGE TO EACH SHAREHOLDER WHO SO
REQUESTS THE POWERS, DESIGNATIONS, PREFERENCES AND RELATIVE, PARTICIPATING,
OPTIONAL OR OTHER SPECIAL RIGHTS OF EACH CLASS OF SHARES OR SERIES THEREOF WHICH
IT IS AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE AND THE QUALIFICATIONS, LIMITATIONS OR RESTRICTIONS OF
SUCH PREFERENCES AND/OR RIGHTS. SUCH REQUEST SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE
SECRETARY OF THE FUND.

         NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTING THE AUCTION
PREFERRED SHARES, AND THE OBLIGATIONS ARISING OUT OF THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF
THE AUCTION PREFERRED SHARES ARE NOT BINDING UPON ANY OF THE TRUSTEES, OFFICERS
OR SHAREHOLDERS INDIVIDUALLY BUT ARE BINDING ONLY UPON THE ASSETS AND PROPERTY
OF THE FUND.

         FOR VALUE RECEIVED, ______________ does hereby sell, assign and
transfer unto __________________ shares of the Auction Preferred Shares
represented by the within Certificate, and does hereby irrevocably constitute
and appoint _______________ as Attorney to transfer the said shares of
beneficial interest on the books of the within named Fund with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated: ___________, 19

In presence of

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