Apparatus for sorting coins, the diameter and thickness of which lie within predefined size ranges, - comprising a storage container for unsorted coins, - comprising at least one coin conveying unit with two parallel, jointly driven, endlessly encircling traction mechanisms, wherein an upper strand, which conveys the coins upward out of the storage container and which is oriented so as to rise in a conveying direction, of the traction mechanism forms a part of the wall of the storage container, with a slide web which extends in the conveying direction and which serves for supporting the coins as they are being conveyed, wherein the slide web is arranged between the traction mechanisms in the region of the upper strand, and with coin receptacles for the conveyed coins, wherein the coin receptacles have driver pins which are arranged in pairs with one another and which are provided on the traction mechanism and which protrude beyond the slide web to an extent which exceeds the predefined greatest coin thickness, - comprising a coin separating unit for separating the coins conveyed out of the storage container into the coin receptacles, with a shearing-off device for coins lying axially one above the other in the coin receptacles, wherein the slide web has, as a shearing-off device, an abutment ramp whose height is smaller than the projecting length of the driver pins above the slide web and is greater than the difference between the projecting length of the driver pins and the smallest predefined coin thickness, and with a throwback device for coins lying radially one above the other in the coin receptacles, wherein the throwback device has a signal transducer for detecting an extent of the coins in the conveying direction and has a throwback means which is arranged downstream of the signal transducer and which serves for returning the coins from the coin receptacle into the storage container, - comprising a coin identification unit which is arranged downstream of the coin separating unit as viewed in the conveying direction and which serves for identifying different coin types on the basis of at least one characteristic feature of the separated coins, and - comprising a discharge unit, which interacts with the coin identification unit and which is arranged downstream of the coin identification unit as viewed in the conveying direction, for the separated coins, characterized in that the discharge unit is formed as a discharge unit for discharging coins in a manner sorted by coin type, the discharge unit has a multiplicity of discharge modules arranged one behind the other in the conveying direction, wherein each discharge module has a throwout means and a detector arranged downstream of the throwout means, and wherein each discharge module is assigned exactly one collecting container, wherein the throwout means are actuated by a control unit such that the coins identified by the coin identification unit are supplied to different collecting containers in accordance with the identified characteristic feature, and in that the control unit interacts with a detection unit for detecting a conveying speed of the coins with the coin identification unit and with the at least one throwout means, such that said control unit determines a time for the actuation of the throwout means taking into consideration the coin diameter. - comprising a storage container for unsorted coins, - comprising at least one coin conveying unit with two parallel, jointly driven, endlessly encircling traction mechanisms, wherein an upper strand, which conveys the coins upward out of the storage container and which is oriented so as to rise in a conveying direction, of the traction mechanism forms a part of the wall of the storage container, with a slide web which extends in the conveying direction and which serves for supporting the coins as they are being conveyed, wherein the slide web is arranged between the traction mechanisms in the region of the upper strand, and with coin receptacles for the conveyed coins, wherein the coin receptacles have driver pins which are arranged in pairs with one another and which are provided on the traction mechanism and which protrude beyond the slide web to an extent which exceeds the predefined greatest coin thickness, - comprising a coin separating unit for separating the coins conveyed out of the storage container into the coin receptacles, with a shearing-off device for coins lying axially one above the other in the coin receptacles, wherein the slide web has, as a shearing-off device, an abutment ramp whose height is smaller than the projecting length of the driver pins above the slide web and is greater than the difference between the projecting length of the driver pins and the smallest predefined coin thickness, and with a throwback device for coins lying radially one above the other in the coin receptacles, wherein the throwback device has a signal transducer for detecting an extent of the coins in the conveying direction and has a throwback means which is arranged downstream of the signal transducer and which serves for returning the coins from the coin receptacle into the storage container, - comprising a coin identification unit which is arranged downstream of the coin separating unit as viewed in the conveying direction and which serves for identifying different coin types on the basis of at least one characteristic feature of the separated coins, and - comprising a discharge unit, which interacts with the coin identification unit and which is arranged downstream of the coin identification unit as viewed in the conveying direction, for the separated coins,