Patent ID: 6880692

Claim:
A method of evaluating a stack of currency bills using a currency evaluation device comprising the acts of: receiving a stack of bills in an input receptacle of the evaluation device; transporting the bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle to one of exactly two output receptacles of the currency evaluation device; counting and determining the denomination of the bills utilizing a detector positioned along a transport path between the input receptacle and the output receptacles; determining whether the bills meet or fail to meet a non-piece count related criterion; and halting the transporting when a bill meets or fails to meet the criterion, a bill meeting or failing to meet the criterion being termed a flagged bill, wherein the halting is performed such that the flagged bill is positioned as the last bill in one of the output receptacles, wherein bills whose denomination are determined are delivered to a first output receptacle and wherein bills whose denomination are not determined are directed to a second output receptacle, a bill whose denomination is not determined being termed a no call bill.