Device for filling a valuable document cassette, having - a cassette receptacle unit for receiving a valuable document cassette, - a gripping unit for gripping a valuable document stack, which has two gripping elements (21, 22) that can be moved towards each other in order to grip the valuable document stack, - a transport unit for moving the gripping unit, which is designed to, with the aid of the gripping unit, retrieve a valuable document stack from a valuable document container (81, 82) and to transport said valuable document stack to the valuable document cassette received in the cassette receptacle unit, and to insert said valuable document stack into the valuable document cassette, - a control unit for controlling the device, in particular for controlling the transport unit and the gripping unit, characterized - in that the device, in addition to the gripping unit, has a finger element which for inserting the valuable document stack is introduced into the valuable document cassette, and/or - in that the device has a hold-down device which is attached to the transport unit of the gripping unit in such a way that said hold-down device is moved conjointly with the movement of the transport unit, and is specified to retain the valuable documents in the valuable document cassette when the finger element and/or the gripping elements (21, 22) of the gripping unit are extracted from the valuable document cassette, wherein the hold-down device during extraction touches the upper edges of at least those valuable documents that are located in the valuable document cassette and are present in the valuable document cassette directly next to the finger element, or directly next to the gripping elements. - a cassette receptacle unit for receiving a valuable document cassette, - a gripping unit for gripping a valuable document stack, which has two gripping elements (21, 22) that can be moved towards each other in order to grip the valuable document stack, - a transport unit for moving the gripping unit, which is designed to, with the aid of the gripping unit, retrieve a valuable document stack from a valuable document container (81, 82) and to transport said valuable document stack to the valuable document cassette received in the cassette receptacle unit, and to insert said valuable document stack into the valuable document cassette, - a control unit for controlling the device, in particular for controlling the transport unit and the gripping unit, - in that the device, in addition to the gripping unit, has a finger element which for inserting the valuable document stack is introduced into the valuable document cassette, and/or - in that the device has a hold-down device which is attached to the transport unit of the gripping unit in such a way that said hold-down device is moved conjointly with the movement of the transport unit, and is specified to retain the valuable documents in the valuable document cassette when the finger element and/or the gripping elements (21, 22) of the gripping unit are extracted from the valuable document cassette, wherein the hold-down device during extraction touches the upper edges of at least those valuable documents that are located in the valuable document cassette and are present in the valuable document cassette directly next to the finger element, or directly next to the gripping elements.