A coin hopper comprising: a storing chamber storing the coins in bulk and formed a bottom hole; a sorting board having a circular through hole, in which is arranged the bottom hole of the storing chamber, causes the coins to drop from an upper side to a lower side through of the through hole by rotation of the sorting board; a pusher pushing out the coins one by one in an outer circumferential direction of the sorting board at a specified position in a back side of the sorting board; a coin holding plate having an approximately same diameter as the sorting board is arranged to be concentric and parallel to the sorting board with a specified interval below the sorting board to form a coin holding space; and a circumferential-direction passage that is continued to the coin holding space in a back side of the sorting board, is extending in the circumferential direction of the sorting board, and is formed of a front side guide positioned in a front position in a forward-rotation direction of the sorting board, a rear side guide positioned at a rear position thereof, and the coin holding plate is formed; wherein; the pusher is provided to be movable at specified timing upon forward rotation of the sorting board between a pushing position that is in the back side of the sorting board and positioned in the coin holding space immediately below the through hole and a standby position that is in a rotating axis side of the sorting board, is in the side of the through hole, and is hidden below the sorting board; and, when the pusher is gradually moved from the standby position to the pushing position, reaches the pushing position at a position corresponding to the specified position, and is gradually moved to the standby position after reaching the pushing position, the coin is moved in the circumferential direction of the sorting board through the circumferential-direction passage from the through hole; wherein the sorting board can be rotated backward; and along with the backward rotation, the pusher is configured to be moved backward with respect to the forward rotation, and, in a zone in which the pusher is gradually moved from the pushing position to the standby position upon the forward rotation, the pusher is configured to be held at the standby position by a backward-rotation standby position holding cam. a storing chamber storing the coins in bulk and formed a bottom hole; a sorting board having a circular through hole, in which is arranged the bottom hole of the storing chamber, causes the coins to drop from an upper side to a lower side through of the through hole by rotation of the sorting board; a pusher pushing out the coins one by one in an outer circumferential direction of the sorting board at a specified position in a back side of the sorting board; a coin holding plate having an approximately same diameter as the sorting board is arranged to be concentric and parallel to the sorting board with a specified interval below the sorting board to form a coin holding space; and a circumferential-direction passage that is continued to the coin holding space in a back side of the sorting board, is extending in the circumferential direction of the sorting board, and is formed of a front side guide positioned in a front position in a forward-rotation direction of the sorting board, a rear side guide positioned at a rear position thereof, and the coin holding plate is formed;