Patent ID: 6868954

Claim:
A method of evaluating a stack of U.S. currency bills using a currency evaluation device comprising the acts of: receiving a stack of U.S. currency bills of a plurality of denominations in an input receptacle of the evaluation device; transporting the U.S. currency bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle to one or more of at least two output receptacles of the currency evaluation device; counting and determining the denomination of the U.S. currency bills of a plurality of denominations utilizing a detector positioned along a transport path between the input receptacle and the output receptacles; flagging a bill when the denomination of a bill is not determined; wherein the act of flagging comprises halting the transporting when a bill is flagged; and delivering bills that have been denominated including bills of a plurality of denominations to a first set of one or more of the output receptacles.