| 摘要 |
Provided is a currency discriminating device that can reduce a possibility of accepting a counterfeit currency, and that can suppress the reduction of sales opportunities due to the insertion of the counterfeit currency. The currency discriminating device includes: a denomination discriminating device that determines authenticity and denomination of an inserted currency; a coin sorting device that accepts the inserted currency determined to be genuine by the denomination discriminating device, and that returns the inserted currency determined to be counterfeit by the denomination discriminating device; and a control device that changes to an acceptance prohibiting mode in which the coin sorting device is controlled so as to return a following inserted currency if the inserted currency is determined to be counterfeit by the denomination discriminating device in a normal mode, and that controls the coin sorting device so as to return the inserted currency and changes to the normal mode if the inserted currency is determined to be genuine by the denomination discriminating device in the acceptance prohibiting mode. |
