Patent ID: 8752689

Claim:
A money input/output apparatus that inputs and outputs a bill, comprising: at least one removable bill accommodation unit of a same configuration that can accommodate one denomination of a bill selected from a plurality of denominations, includes a first memory unit storing accommodation information including a denomination of an accommodated bill, and accommodates and discharges a bill; a plurality of mount units on which any one of the bill accommodation units of the same configuration is mounted respectively regardless of the denomination of the accommodated bill; a detection unit that detects whether or not the bill accommodation unit has been mounted on the mount unit; a second memory unit that stores an identification information of the mount unit and the denomination of the bill to be accommodated in the bill accommodation unit mounted on the mount unit in an associated manner; an instruction receiving unit that receives an instruction to input or output the bill; a conveyance unit that conveys the bill; a control unit that reads the denomination of the bill from the first memory unit and determines whether or not the read denomination of the bill corresponds to the denomination stored in the second memory unit in association with the identification information of the mount unit on which mounting of the bill accommodation unit has been detected when the detection unit has detected that the bill accommodation unit has been mounted on the mount unit, starts reception of an instruction to input or output the bill from the instruction receiving unit and makes the conveyance unit convey the bill in accordance with the instruction when the denominations have been determined to correspond.