Patent ID: 7520375

Claim:
A banknote handling device that handles banknotes, said banknote handling device comprising: a money-in module that receives banknotes from a customer; a counterfeit collection box that stores counterfeit banknotes; a discrimination module that carries out counterfeit detection and determines each banknote as counterfeit or as genuine; a counterfeit processing module that stores each banknote determined as counterfeit into said counterfeit collection box, based on a result of the counterfeit detection by said discrimination module, and prohibits the stored counterfeit banknote from being returned to the customer; and a notification module that notifies the customer of predetermined kind of information indicative of a total amount of money received from the customer and an amount of money settled as a transaction, regardless of the result of the counterfeit detection by said discrimination module, wherein: the total amount of money includes an amount of money in counterfeit notes if existing in the banknotes received from the customer and the predetermined kind of information notified by said notification module includes information for specifying an amount of money in banknotes determined as counterfeit by said discrimination module, out of the total amount of money received from the customer.