CURRENCY EVALUATION DEVICE

摘要

A currency evaluation device and method for identifying currency bills of different denominations of a plurality of currency systems, comprising an input receptacle, at least one output receptacle accessible to a user, and a discriminating unit for retrieving characteristic information from one or more bills. A mechanism transports bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle along a transport path past the discriminating unit to the output receptacle. A memory is provided for storing master-characteristic information associated with each genuine bill which th e system is capable of identifying; that memory storing master-characteristic information associated with at least one genuine bill from at least two currency systems . A signal-processing means compares the retrieved characteristic information wi th master-characteristic information associated with at least one genuine bill; the signal-processing means generating an indication of the identity of the bill based on the comparison when the retrieved characteristic information sufficiently matches the master-characteristic information.