Coin mixture sorting and counting device for public vending machine in e.g. supermarket, has memory to store coins with foreign coin family characteristics, and unit to identify and count coin mixture component of foreign coin family

摘要

The device (1) has a memory (2) for storing many coins (10) of a coin family with certain characteristics, where the family represents a main component (3) of a coin mixture. An identifying and counting unit for identifying the coin mixture component that is not pertinent to the coin family and for counting or sorting the coins identified with the characteristics of coin family. The memory stores the coins with foreign coin family characteristics. The identifying and counting unit identifies and counts the coin mixture component of a foreign coin family.