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        <issuerName>PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>PNC</issuerTradingSymbol>
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            <rptOwnerName>CLAY ROBERT N</rptOwnerName>
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            <rptOwnerCity>  </rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>  </rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>  </rptOwnerZipCode>
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            <isOfficer>0</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
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          <underlyingSecurityTitle>
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      </underlyingSecurity>
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          <directOrIndirectOwnership>
              <value>I</value>
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              <value>Deferred Stock Unit Plan</value>
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   </derivativeSecurity>
<footnotes>
   <footnote id="F1">1 for 1.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F2">Phantom Stock Units received as dividend equivalents under PNC Directors Deferred Compensation Plan.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F3">Dates shown are required for SEC filing purposes only and have no relationship to the reported transaction.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F4">Phantom stock units received under the PNC Directors Deferred Compensation Plan during 2003.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F5">Phantom Stock units received as dividend equivalents under PNC Outside Directors Deferred Stock Unit Plan.</footnote>
</footnotes>
    <ownerSignature>
       <signatureName>Robert N. Clay</signatureName>
       <signatureDate>2003-07-02</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
    <ownerSignature>
       <signatureName>Mark C. Joseph, Attorney-in-Fa</signatureName>
       <signatureDate>2003-07-02</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>

