Patent ID: 7971699

Claim:
A consumer coin counting machine, the coin counting machine comprising: an input region configured to receive a plurality of randomly oriented coins from a user; a coin discriminator configured to receive the coins from the input region and count the coins to determine a total; an intermediate holding area for at least temporarily holding the coins counted by the coin discriminator; a display device operably connected to the coin discriminator and configured to display at least one of the total and a value related to the total; and a user selection device, wherein the coins held in the intermediate holding area are returned to the user in response to receiving a first user input via the user selection device rejecting at least one of the total and the value related to the total, and wherein a redeemable voucher is dispensed from the coin counting machine in response to receiving a second user input via the user selection device accepting at least one of the total and the value related to the total.