Patent ID: 8387865

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that operates responsive at least in part, to data read from data bearing records, including: a card reader, wherein the card reader is operative to read card data from a user card, wherein the card data corresponds to a financial account; a note acceptor, wherein the note acceptor is operative to receive notes input to the automated banking machine by machine users, wherein the note acceptor includes at least one validator, wherein the at least one validator is operative to sense at least one property usable to distinguish between valid notes and suspect counterfeit notes; at least one computer in the automated banking machine, wherein the at least one computer is in operative connection with the card reader and the note acceptor, and wherein the at least one computer is operative to cause financial transfers involving the financial account corresponding to the card data; and wherein the at least one validator includes at least one ultrasonic detector, and wherein the at least one computer is operative to determine that a note received by the note acceptor is one of valid and suspect counterfeit responsive at least in part to at least one signal from the at least one ultrasonic detector.