Patent ID: 7896149

Claim:
A coin roll storage comprising: a storage main body; a coin roll drawer arranged to be manually pulled out/pushed into the storage main body in a horizontal longitudinal direction at least between a closed position and a pulled-out position, the coin roll drawer being provided with a plurality of coin roll storage sections each for storing one coin roll of a particular denomination with an axis of the coin roll pointing in a transverse direction, and formed with a light-transmittable section extending in the longitudinal direction over at least the plurality of coin roll storage sections; a displacement detector configured to detect a longitudinal displacement of the coin roll drawer relative to the storage main body; a coin roll diameter sensor including a light-emitting unit and a light-receiving unit fastened to the storage main body to face each other with the light-transmittable section of the coin roll drawer positioned therebetween, the diameter sensor being configured to output a signal depending on whether light is blocked by a coin roll; and a coin roll detector configured to detect the presence and the denomination of a coin roll in each storage section of the coin roll drawer on the basis of the longitudinal displacement of the coin roll drawer detected by the displacement detector and the output signal from the diameter sensor.