Patent ID: 7766229

Claim:
A bill and coin processing system comprising: a bill and coin processing apparatus; and a point-of-sales terminal machine, said bill and coin processing apparatus including: an interface unit to exchange information via a communication unit with said point-of-sales terminal machine; a money receiving unit receiving money for a sold commercial product; a discriminating unit discriminating at least one denomination of the money received through said money receiving unit; a storing/discharging unit to store the money received based on a discrimination result made by said discriminating unit and to discharge the money according to a discharge instruction transmitted from said point-of-sales terminal machine to said bill and coin processing apparatus; a money discharging unit discharging the money, which has been discharged by said storing/discharging unit, to the outside of the apparatus; a setting unit that arbitrarily sets denominations in a plurality of said storing/discharging units; and a control unit controlling said money discharging unit to discharge the money from said storing/discharging unit according to a discharge instruction, which is directed to said bill and coin processing apparatus from said point-of-sales terminal machine and is accepted by said interface unit, wherein said control unit includes a money acceptance judging unit that judges whether or not the received money is to be stored in the apparatus on the basis of a discrimination result by said discriminating unit and in accordance with information input through said setting unit.