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<ACCEPTANCE-DATETIME>20190125140845
ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000892251-19-000007
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	S-8 POS
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20190125
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20190125
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20190125

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001042046
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331]
		IRS NUMBER:				311544320
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			OH
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		S-8 POS
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-184915
		FILM NUMBER:		19542201

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE GROUP TOWER
		STREET 2:		301 E. 4TH STREET
		CITY:			CINCINNATI
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			45202
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5135792121

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE GROUP TOWER
		STREET 2:		301 E. 4TH STREET
		CITY:			CINCINNATI
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			45202

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP HOLDINGS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19970709
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<DESCRIPTION>AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 333-184915
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 25, 2019</div>
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        <div style="text-align: right;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;">Registration No. 333-176192</font></div>
        <div style="text-align: right;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;">Registration No. 333-184915</font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">____________</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1</font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">FORM S-8</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</font></div>
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              <div>&#160;</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">Ohio</font></div>
              <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">(State or other jurisdiction of</font></div>
              <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">incorporation or organization)</font></div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">31-1544320</font></div>
              <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">(IRS Employer Identification</font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">301 East Fourth Street</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati, Ohio&#160; 45202</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">(513) 579-2121</font><font style="font-size:
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          </font>(Address of Registrant&#8217;s Principal Executive Offices)</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><u>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</u></font></font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">EQUITY BONUS PLAN</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><u>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</u></font></font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Karl J. Grafe, Esq.</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Secretary</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">American Financial Group, Inc.</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">301 East Fourth Street</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Cincinnati, Ohio 45202</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">(513) 579-2540</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Facsimile:&#160; (513) 579-0108</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">&#160;(Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code,<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
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          </font>&#160;of Agent for Service of Process)</font></div>
      <div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting
          company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;smaller reporting company,&#8221; and &#8220;emerging growth company&#8221; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</font></div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Large accelerated filer <font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">&#9745;</font></font></div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Accelerated filer <font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">&#9744;</font></font></div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Non-accelerated filer <font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">&#9744;</font></font></div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Smaller reporting company <font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">&#9744;</font></font></div>
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            <td style="width: 50%; vertical-align: top;">&#160;</td>
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              <div style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Emerging growth company <font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">&#9744;</font></font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">If an emerging growth company, indicate by
            check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. </font><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">&#9744;</font></font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;"><font style="background-color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">EXPLANATORY NOTE</font></font></div>
      <div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><font style="background-color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">On August 9, 2011,
            the Registrant filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration Statement on&#160;Form S-8&#160;(Registration Statement&#160;333-176192)&#160;(the &#8220;2011 Form&#160;S-8&#8221;)&#160;registering 1,500,000 shares of the Registrant&#8217;s common stock pursuant to the Co-CEO
            Equity Bonus Plan (the &#8220;2011 Plan&#8221;).</font></font></div>
      <div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><font style="background-color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">On November 13,
            2012, the Registrant filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration Statement on&#160;Form S-8&#160;(Registration Statement&#160;333-184915)&#160;(the &#8220;2012 Form&#160;S-8&#8221; and collectively with the 2011 Form S-8, the &#8220;Registration
            Statements&#8221;)&#160;registering an additional 500,000 shares of the Registrant&#8217;s common stock pursuant to the Plan (which had been renamed as the &#8220;2012 Equity Bonus Plan,&#8221; and collectively with the 2011 Plan, the &#8220;Plan&#8221;).</font></font></div>
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        <div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">The Registrant has terminated the Plan.&#160; No
              additional shares of common stock will be issued to participants under the Plan. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement&#160;Nos. 333-</font>176192 and 333-184915 <font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New
              Roman', Times, serif;">is being filed in order to terminate all offerings under the Registration Statements and deregister all shares of common stock that were registered under the Registration Statements</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;
              font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> and remain unsold under the Plan.</font></font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has
          reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Cincinnati, Ohio, on January
          25, 2019.</font></div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.</div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">By:<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">&#160;<u>&#160; /s/ Karl J.
                      Grafe&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </u></font><u><font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 12pt"><br>
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              <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Karl J. Grafe</font></div>
              <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Secretary</font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 18pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Note:&#160; No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on&#160;Form S-8&#160;to
          Registration Statement Nos. 333-176192 and 333-184915 in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.</font></div>
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